''African Invertebrates'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers the

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, systematics, biogeography,

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, conservation, and palaeontology of Afrotropical

invertebrate Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordate ...

s, whether terrestrial, freshwater, or marine. It is published by Pensoft Publishers on behalf of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum and the

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is David G. Herbert (KwaZulu-Natal Museum).

History

The journal was established in 1906 as the ''Annals of the Natal Government Museum'' and after 1910 renamed to ''Annals of the Natal Museum''. In 1989, the journal stopped publishing archaeological and anthropological papers, which was split of to a new journal, the ''Natal Museum Journal of Humanities'' (later: ''Southern African Humanities''), while the ''Annals of the Natal Museum'' were restricted to the

natural sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

. The journal obtained its name in 2001 when its scope was limited to the study of invertebrates.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 0.622.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://africaninvertebrates.pensoft.net/
''African Invertebrates''
on Sabinet
''Annals of the Natal Museum''
in Biodiversity Heritage Library
''African Invertebrates''
in

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Entomology journals and magazines Paleontology journals Publications established in 1906 Biannual journals English-language journals Pensoft Publishers academic journals Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals Systematics journals 1906 establishments in the Colony of Natal

History

Abstracting and indexing

See also

References

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