''African Invertebrates'' is a

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that covers the

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, conservation, and

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invertebrate Invertebrates are animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''spine'' or ''backbone''), which evolved from the notochord. It is a paraphyletic grouping including all animals excluding the chordata, chordate s ...

s, whether terrestrial, freshwater, or marine. As from 2016, it is published by Pensoft Publishers on behalf of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum and the

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is John M. Midgley (KwaZulu-Natal Museum).

History

The journal was established in 1906 as the ''Annals of the Natal Government Museum'' and after 1910 renamed to ''Annals of the Natal Museum''. In 1989, the journal stopped publishing archaeological and anthropological papers, which was split of to a new journal, the ''Natal Museum Journal of Humanities'' (later: ''Southern African Humanities''), while the ''Annals of the Natal Museum'' were restricted to the

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. The journal obtained its name in 2001 when its scope was limited to the study of invertebrates.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 0.622.

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''African Invertebrates''
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in ZooBank Entomology journals and magazines Paleontology journals Publications established in 1906 Biannual journals English-language journals Pensoft Publishers academic journals Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals Systematics journals 1906 establishments in the Colony of Natal

History

Abstracting and indexing

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