Biodiversity Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access, rapidly disseminated journal. Papers are published both online and in the traditional printed format. All papers published in Biodiversity Journal can be freely copied, downloaded, printed and distributed at no charge for the reader he journal publishes papers in biodiversity science containing taxonomic, floristic/faunistic, morphological, genomic, phylogenetic, ecological or environmental data on any taxon of any geological age from any part of the world. BDJ aims at integrating data and narrative in the article content to the maximum extent possible. Supplementary data files that underpin graphs, hypotheses and results should also be published with the article or deposited in trusted open access data repositories. The journal provides rich biodiversity data import and export facilities through the ARPHA Writing Tool and Darwin Core Archives. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.