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 CRediTs 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).
Formal establishment of Gecarcinoidea H. Milne Edwards, 1837 n. stat. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), with recognition of two families, Cardisomatidae n. fam. and Gecarcinidae restrict., and new insights on Epigrapsidae Watabe, 2007
Danièle GUINOT & Paula A. RODRÍGUEZ MORENO
211-271 , Published on 31 March 2026, art. 48 (8)
Descriptions of two new species of the enigmatic Neotropical tribe Chryxini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) and a key to genera and species with single membrane cell
Zhuo CHEN et al.
197-209 , Published on 24 March 2026, art. 48 (7) 
Spiders of the Orsiera Rocciavrè Natural Park and Foresto Ravine Natural Reserve (NW Italy): a faunistic synthesis with data from the “Biodiversity Monitoring Project”
Marco TOLVE et al.
139-195 , Published on 19 March 2026, art. 48 (6) 
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.
