An index to new genera and species of Nematoda in &lt;i&gt;Zootaxa&lt;/i&gt; from 2007 to 2012

(991 speciesThe top family is the Eriophyidae, which alone accounted for nearly 15% of the total new species. Geographically, the new species were described from 92 countries and their distribution among these countries is highly uneven. The top 10 countries accounted for 62% of all the new species and the top country, China, alone accounted for 18% of the total. The average number of new species per country is 15 and no more than a fifth of the countries are above the average, and 40% of the countries have only 1-3 new species each. The top country for each continent is China (248 species) for Asia, Australia (166 species) for Oceania, Brazil (76 species) for South America, Kenya (51 species) for Africa, USA (51 species) for North America and Russia (42 species) for Europe. Increased efforts in discovering and describing new species are much needed for biodiversity-rich countries in South America, Southeast Asia and Africa.

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012

Liu¹,

Yi²,

Xu³

et al. 2013

“…If the number of species described is not changing much, what does seem to be changing is the journals in which descriptions have been published. Summaries of publications describing nematodes in the journal Zootaxa (Hodda 2021, Xu et al 2013, Zhao 2007, plus the current data, show a doubling of the rate of descriptions published in Zootaxa approximately every 3 to 4 years (Figure 1). This is after growing from 2 new species in the 3 rd year of the journal in 2003, to 75 new species in 2020…”

Section: Sources Of Species Descriptionsmentioning

confidence: 67%

Phylum Nematoda: trends in species descriptions, the documentation of diversity, systematics, and the species concept

Hodda

2022

This paper summarizes the trends in nematode species description and systematics emerging from a comparison of the latest comprehensive classification and census of Phylum Nematoda (Hodda 2022a, b) with earlier classifications (listed in Hodda 2007). It also offers some general observations on trends in nematode systematics emerging from the review of the voluminous literature used to produce the classification. The trends in nematodes can be compared with developments in the systematics of other organisms to shed light on many of the general issues confronting systematists now and into the future.

“…This paper provides more detail on the publications on nematodes in Zootaxa, covering revisions, catalogues and other taxonomic publications in the period since the journal's inception (2001). It updates earlier summaries of publications on nematode systematics in Zootaxa (Zhao 2007, Xu et al 2013.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Papers published in Zootaxa concerning Nematoda from 2001 to 2020

Hodda

2021

In the first twenty years of the publication of Zootaxa, nearly 500 papers on nematodes have been published, ranging from complete classifications of the entire phylum to single species descriptions, revisions, catalogues and faunal checklists. In terms of species descriptions, this has represented a substantial and increasing proportion of all descriptions of new nematode species. A total of 488 authors have published, with over 20 authors contributing at a rate of more than one paper every two years.