ZooKeys is a peer-reviewed open access

Open access journal

Open access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.Subsidized journals...

 academic journal for the field of zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

. It was established in 2008, and the editor-in-chief is Terry Erwin

Terry Erwin

Terry L. Erwin is an entomologist with the Smithsonian Institution.Erwin is notable for his controversial estimate of 30 million as the total number of species....

 from the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

. It is published by Bulgarian Pensoft Publishers.

ZooKeys is an Encyclopedia of Life

Encyclopedia of Life

The Encyclopedia of Life is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world...

 partner, with all new taxa being provided to Encyclopedia of Life as XML markup on the day of publication.

In 2009, University of Arizona

University of Arizona

The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

 biologist Bruce Walsh reported his discovery of the Lithophane leeae

Lithophane leeae

Lithophane leeae is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is only found in the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona.The length of the forewings is about 25 mm....

in the journal.