A brief review of the stony coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) papers published by Zootaxa in its first 20 years

In the 20 year history of Zootaxa, thirty-two papers have been published having Scleractinia as its primary focus. Twenty four of the 32 scleractinian papers deal with Recent taxa, most of which belonging to shallow-water, reef corals. The 8 publications dealing with fossil Scleractinia include 3 monographic works, three papers discussing nomenclatural issues of individual taxa, and 2 papers deal with various aspects of select genera. Since its launch in 2001, thirty-two papers having Scleractinia as its primary focus have been published in Zootaxa. This constitutes about 0.10% of the papers published by Zootaxa. Scleractinian papers were not published in the first three years of Zootaxa history or in 2014 or 2019. Otherwise, papers have been published in all other years, 2013 being the peak year, with four papers. For our analysis, scleractinian papers have been divided into those pertaining to Recent (living) species and those that are exclusively fossil. Papers in which Scleractinia are cited as host species for other species or when Scleractinia is included as a minor part of a larger comprehensive paper are not included.

Automated summary

In the 20-year history of Zootaxa, 32 papers focused on Scleractinia have been published, accounting for around 0.10% of all papers. The papers are divided into those related to living species and fossil species, with 2013 being the peak year for publication.