Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, 231 Morrin Road, Auckland 1072, New Zealand. Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand..
Institute of Zoology, Technikerstr. 25 A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Zootaxa. 2021 May 28;4979(1):115130. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4979.1.13.
Acari represent the most diverse group within the arachnids with some 60,000 described species. It is generally believed that most species of mites are waiting to be discovered and described. Zootaxa was the most important journal for mite taxonomy during the last twenty years (2001 to 2020). It published 1305 papers by 1057 authors during these two decades, with descriptions of 3271 new taxa/names, which account for 24.4% of the total indexed in Zoological Record. The numbers of new synonyms of Acari in Zootaxa (334) also accounted for nearly a quarter (24.9%) of the total published during this period. These data indicate that Zootaxa has been an important and leading journal for acarologists to document the diversity of mites and ticks in the world.
蜱螨目是蛛形纲中最多样化的类群，已描述的物种约有 6 万种。人们普遍认为，大多数螨种仍有待发现和描述。在过去的二十年里（2001 年至 2020 年），《动物分类群》是螨类分类学最重要的期刊。在这二十年中，它发表了 1057 位作者的 1305 篇论文，描述了 3271 个新分类单元/名称，占《动物学记录》索引总数的 24.4%。在《动物分类群》中，蜱螨目的新同物异名（334 个）也占这一时期发表总数的近四分之一（24.9%）。这些数据表明，《动物分类群》一直是螨类学家记录世界上螨类和蜱类多样性的重要且领先的期刊。
