For over 100 years Acta Zoologica has been one of the world's leading journals in animal organization, development, structure and function.

Each issue we publish original research of interest to zoologists and physiologists worldwide. Our research includes animal structure, from cellular to organismic level as well as the development of animals, emphasizing functional, comparative and phylogenetic aspects. 

Articles

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Osteological insights on Turkish Pseudophoxinus species and Egirdira nigra (Teleostei: Leuciscidae)

Salim Serkan Güçlü, Laith A. Jawad, Fahrettin Küçük, 
  •  14 March 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Relationship between otolith size and fish total length of Saurida lessepsianus Russell, Golani and Tikochinski, 2015 collected from the coast of Muğla province, Aegean Sea, Türkiye

İsmail Reis, Laith Jawad, Celal Ateş, 
  •  13 March 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Identification of loach fishes from Iran (Cypriniformes: Cobitoidea) using some osteological characters

Laith A. Jawad, Golnaz Sayyadzadeh, Hamid Reza Esmaeili, 
  •  11 March 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Molecular characterization of gut cellulolytic bacteria isolated from different ecotypes of Brahmina coriacea (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) grubs in North-Western Himalaya

Suresh Kumar Mahala, Ravinder Singh Chandel, Kuldeep Singh Verma, Karthik Ramappa, Abhishek Walia, 
  •  6 March 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Sagitta asymmetry in the striped snakehead, Channa striata (Anabantiformes, Channidae), collected from the River Ganga and two of its tributaries, India

Salman Khan, L. A. Jawad, Mohammad Afzal Khan, A. Ankita, Farah Bano, Kaish Miyan, 
  •  6 March 2025
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Wettability and Contaminability of Insect Wings as a Function of Their Surface Sculptures

Thomas Wagner, Christoph Neinhuis, Wilhelm Barthlott, 
  •  213-225
  •  July 1996

Variations in the hypotarsus morphology of birds and their evolutionary significance

Gerald Mayr, 
  •  196-210
  •  21 January 2015

Why the term “larva” is ambiguous, or what makes a larva?

Joachim T. Haug, 
  •  167-188
  •  8 November 2018

Skull shape variation in extant and extinct Testudinata and its relation to habitat and feeding ecology

Christian Foth, Márton Rabi, Walter G. Joyce, 
  •  310-325
  •  2 December 2016

Mast cells in goldfish (Carassius auratus) gut: Immunohistochemical characterization

Alessio Alesci, Simona Pergolizzi, Angelo Fumia, Concetta Calabrò, Patrizia Lo Cascio, Eugenia Rita Lauriano, 
  •  366-379
  •  1 March 2022
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Wettability and Contaminability of Insect Wings as a Function of Their Surface Sculptures

Thomas Wagner, Christoph Neinhuis, Wilhelm Barthlott, 

Variations in the hypotarsus morphology of birds and their evolutionary significance

Gerald Mayr, 

Why the term “larva” is ambiguous, or what makes a larva?

Joachim T. Haug, 
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The cnidome and internal morphology of Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cnidaria, Anthozoa)

Susanna M. Strömberg, Carina Östman, 
Open access

Early stalked stages in ontogeny of the living isocrinid sea lily Metacrinus rotundus

Shonan Amemiya, Akihito Omori, Toko Tsurugaya, Taku Hibino, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Ritsu Kuraishi, Masato Kiyomoto, Takuya Minokawa, 
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Fibre types in primary ‘flight’ muscles of the African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)

Kristen L. Schroeder, Nicole J. Sylvain, Lisa J. Kirkpatrick, Benjamin W. C. Rosser, 

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