The Zoological Record

The Zoological Record is an international index of zoological literature and taxonomic names, first published in 1864 and now available as an online database.

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Zoological literature: Scientific publications about animals, including their biology, classification, distribution, and evolution. The Record indexes this body of research and helps locate relevant publications.
William Francis: A British zoologist and publisher who helped establish the Zoological Record in the nineteenth century. Francis was among the figures behind the Record’s founding and early publication.
Taxonomy: The science of identifying, describing, naming, and classifying organisms. Taxonomy supplies much of the subject matter indexed in the Record.
Index Zoologicus: A bibliographic index of zoological names published from 1758 through 1900. It covers an earlier historical interval than the continuing Zoological Record.
Zoological nomenclature: The rules and practices for naming and classifying animals. Recorded names help researchers trace zoological names through the literature.
John Edward Gray: A British zoologist and longtime keeper of zoology at the British Museum. Gray contributed to the early development of the annual record of zoological literature.
Scientific literature: The published research and scholarly writing produced by scientific communities. The Record organizes a zoology-focused portion of scientific literature.
Biodiversity Heritage Library: A digital library providing access to historical biodiversity literature. It offers digitized full texts, while the Record primarily indexes publications and names.
Taxonomic literature: Publications that describe, identify, classify, or revise organisms and their names. The index makes taxonomic descriptions and revisions easier to discover.
Zoological Society of London: A learned society founded in London in 1826 to advance zoology and animal conservation. The society supported the institutional setting in which the Record developed.