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Research article
The remarkable larval morphology of Rhaebo nasicus (Werner, 1903) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) with the erection of a new bufonid genus and insights into the evolution of suctorial tadpoles
Pedro Henrique dos Santos Dias, Jackson R. Phillips, Martín O. Pereyra, D. Bruce Means, Alexander Haas & Philippe J. R. Kok
Published 30 September 2024

Research article
Disparity of metatibial and metatarsal cuticular and sensory structures in Cixiidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) with a metatibiotarsal diagnosis for the tribes
Jolanta Brożek, Adam Stroiński, Anna Romaniak & Thierry Bourgoin
Published 26 August 2024

Research article
The burrower bug Macroscytus japonensis (Hemiptera: Cydnidae) acquires obligate symbiotic bacteria from the environment
Takuma Nakawaki, Shuto Watanabe & Takahiro Hosokawa
Published 2 August 2024

Research article
Head in the clouds: two new microendemic tepui-summit species of Stefania (Anura: Hemiphractidae)
Philippe J.R. Kok
Published 1 August 2024

Review
Systematics and phylogeny of the entomopathogenic nematobacterial complexes Steinernema–Xenorhabdus and Heterorhabditis–Photorhabdus
Vladimír Půža & Ricardo A. R. Machado
Published 17 July 2024

Research article
Proteins from shrews’ venom glands play a role in gland functioning and venom production
Krzysztof Kowalski, Paweł Marciniak, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris & Leszek Rychlik
Published 15 July 2024

Research article
Sexual dimorphism in the tardigrade Paramacrobiotus metropolitanus transcriptome
Kenta Sugiura, Yuki Yoshida, Kohei Hayashi, Kazuharu Arakawa, Takekazu Kunieda & Midori Matsumoto
Published 20 June 2024

Research article
Boring life: early colony formation and growth in the endolithic bryozoan genus Penetrantia Silén, 1946
Sebastian H. Decker, Sarah Lemer, Simone Decker, Masato Hirose, Mildred J. Johnson & Thomas Schwaha
Published 14 June 2024

Research article
Brood success of sex-role-reversed pheasant-tailed jacanas: the effects of social polyandry, seasonality, and male mating order
Ya-Fu Lee, Yen-Min Kuo, Bing-Yuan Chuang, Hui-Ching Hsu, Yi-Jun Huang, Yu-Chen Su & Wen-Chen Lee
Published 30 April 2024

Research article
The more we search, the more we find: discovering and expanding the biodiversity in the ring nematode genus Xenocriconemella De Grisse and Loof, 1965 (Nematoda: Criconematidae)
A. Archidona-Yuste, I. Clavero-Camacho, A. N. Ruiz-Cuenca, C. Cantalapiedra-Navarrete, G. Liebanas, P. Castillo & J. E. Palomares-Rius
Published 25 March 2024


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Founded in 1878, the Zoological Society of Japan is known to be one of the oldest and successful academic societies in Japan, and has supported scientific activities across a wide-range fields of areas associated with basic zoology. The Zoological Society of Japan is an academic society aimed at the advance and dissemination of animal scientific research. Members, starting with researchers and graduate students affiliated with universities and research institutes, consist of teaching staff at elementary, middle and high schools, and the number of members has reached 2,700.

Aims and scope

Zoological Letters is an open access journal that publishes new and important findings in the zoological sciences. As a sister journal to Zoological Science, Zoological Letters covers a wide range of basic fields of zoology, from taxonomy to bioinformatics. We also welcome submissions of paleontology reports as part of our effort to contribute to the development of new perspectives in evolutionary zoology. Our goal is to serve as a global publishing forum for fundamental researchers in all fields of zoology.

Shigeru Kuratani, RIKEN, Japan - Editor-in-Chief

Shigeru Kuratani received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology at Kyoto University. He spent the period from 1988 to 1991 working in experimental embryology in the Department of Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia before moving to the Biochemistry Department, Baylor College of Medicine, where he focused on molecular embryological research. He returned to Japan in 1994 to take a position as associate professor at the Institute of Medical Embryology and Genetics in the Kumamoto University School of Medicine. He moved to Okayama University to assume a professorship in the Department of Biology in 1997, where he remained until he was appointed team leader at the CDB in 2001. He was appointed Group Director at CDB from 2005 to 2014. Since 2014, he is Chief Scientist at RIKEN.

ZooDiversity Web is a search and access website that provides an attractive and easy-to-use internet search engine and showcase for scientific papers published since 1984 in the English-language journal of the Zoological Society of Japan (Zoological Science). These papers include over 4,000 peer-reviewed articles on a great diversity of over 13,000 different species of animals.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 1.7
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.4
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.776
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.422

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 6
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 136

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 330,073
    Altmetric mentions: 649