Zoosystema is a fast-track and peer-reviewed journal, devoted to the inventory, analysis and interpretation of animal biodiversity. It publishes, in French or English, original results of zoological research, particularly in systematics and related fields: comparative, functional and evolutionary morphology, phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomy and nomenclature, etc. All articles published in Zoosystema are compliant with the different nomenclatural codes (ICZN, ICN) and with the CRediT initiative.
Starting in 2026, articles published in Zoosystema are distributed under a CC BY 4.0 license.
All Zoosystema articles are made freely and immediately available in PDF to readers on the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle website, with no charges to authors for publication (Diamond Open Access). The enhanced journal is distributed by BioOne®, in full-text searchable XML as part of the aggregation BioOne Complete. Archiving and preservation are provided via Portico and LOCKSS.
Zoosystema continues as from 1997 the Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 4ème série, section A, Zoologie. From 2018, Zoosystema is published online only with a continuous flow of publication (fast-track).
Neither lost nor quite forgotten: tracing 19th and early 20th century bee types in the collections of Oxford and Paris (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)
A new eusocial species of snapping shrimp, Synalpheus idelisae n. sp. (Decapoda, Alpheidae), with a review of caste differentiation in eusocial shrimp
Kristin M. HULTGREN et al.
623-638 , Published on 08 September 2026, art. 48 (20) 
Craniodental pathologies and irregularities in the giraffe (Giraffa spp.)
Nikolaos KARGOPOULOS et al.
590-621 , Published on 25 August 2026, art. 48 (19) 
Editor in chief: Laure Desutter-Grandcolas
Desk editor: Anne Mabille
Visual : Vulturine guinea fowl, feathers © MNHN - Laurent Bessol
Nesrine Akkari (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienne, Autriche)
Maria Marta Cigliano (Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentine)
Serge Gofas (Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Espagne)
Sylvain Hugel (CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, France)
Marco Isaia (Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italie)
Rafael Marquez (CSIC, Madrid, Espagne)
Jose Christopher E. Mendoza (Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapour)
Annemarie Ohler (MNHN, Paris, France)
Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France)
Wanda M. Weiner (Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracovie, Pologne)
Nomenclaturel acts published in Zoosystema are registered on Zoobank.org.
