''Contributions to Zoology'' (formerly known as ''Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde'') is a

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that started in 1848 as a publication of the Committee in charge of the library of the Dutch Royal Zoological Society "

Natura Artis Magistra Natura Artis Magistra (Latin for "Nature is the teacher of art"), commonly known just as Artis (), is a zoo and botanical garden in the centre of Amsterdam. It is the oldest zoo in the Netherlands and fifth oldest zoo in the world. In addition ...

" and became integrated in the library of the

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in 1939. Since 2019 the journal is published by

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, Leiden. The journal has been freely available online since 1997. The current

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is Ronald Vonk from

Naturalis Biodiversity Center Naturalis Biodiversity Center () is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021. Although its current name and organization are relatively ...

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. Contributions to Zoology solicits high-quality papers in all systematics-related branches of comparative

zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

(including

paleozoology Palaeozoology or paleozoology ( Greek: παλαιόν, ''palaeon'' "old" and ζῷον, ''zoon'' "animal") is the branch of paleontology and evolutionary biology that specifically deal with the study of prehistoric organisms from the kingdom ...

). Preference is given to manuscripts dealing with conceptual issues and to integrative papers (e.g., ecology and biodiversity, morphology and phylogeny and character state evolution,

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree or phylogeny is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or Taxon, taxa during a specific time.Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, M ...

and historical biogeography, systematics and bioinformatics, bioinformatics and biodiversity, habitat disturbance and biogeography, etc.). Reviews and alpha-taxonomic contributions are considered for publication, but acceptance will depend on their high quality and exceptional nature.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is currently indexed in

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, and

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. The journal has a 2018

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of 2.139.

References

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