Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology (ztm)
The majority of global biodiversity is insufficiently known. However, we need comprehensive and reliable data so that we can protect biodiversity in a targeted and comprehensive manner. Discovering, describing, distinguishing and characterising species is a prerequisite for understanding the evolution of life on Earth and recognising ecological relationships. Our researchers at the Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology (ztm) pursue these core tasks.
Collections as a store of knowledge
Using taxonomic-systematic, morphological and molecular analyses, they generate knowledge about biological diversity, which they interpret using objects from the collections. The scientific collections form the heart of the ztm and provide the information basis for understanding changes and formulating forecasts.
Digitised data accessible to all
The staff at the ztm are continuously developing this "library of life" and making it accessible to researchers from all over the world and to the public. At the ztm, scientists develop strategies for the expansion and digitisation of the collections. They pass on their knowledge of the species to schoolchildren, students, the interested public and members of international co-operation projects.
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HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesMammalogy - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesOrnithology - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesHerpetologie - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesIchthyology - Hamburg
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesMammalogy - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesOrnithology - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesHerpetology - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesIchthyology - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesLeibniz Junior Research Group Minnows - Conversation Genomics - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesAnimal husbandry - Bonn
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgInvertebrates - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgMollusca - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgAnnelida - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgCrustacea - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgArachnida & Myriapoda - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgLepidoptera & Trichoptera - Hamburg
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnArachnida - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnMyriapoda - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnHymenoptera - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnLepidoptera & Trichoptera - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnColeoptera - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnDiptera - Bonn
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Central unitsMorphology laboratory - Hamburg
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Central unitsMorphology laboratory - Bonn
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Publications
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2025/8
New species of Lechytia Balzan, 1892 (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) from Burmese amber highlights 99 million years of morphological stasis
Cretaceous Research, 127
2025/5
Caucasian/Pontic–Mediterranean disjunction and recolonization of Europe by Pomatias (Hyrcania) species (Caenogastropoda, Pomatiidae)
Zoologica scripta, 3, 54
2025/5
Hymenoptera evolution: A long and winding road
Current Biology, 9, 35
2025/5
Gaps in the Protection of the Reptiles of Myanmar—Threat Status, Endemism, Protected Area Coverage, and One Plan Approach Conservation
Integrative Conservation
2025/5
Resolving taxonomic ambiguities in extant Himalayan lazy toads: A new species of the genus Scutiger (Anura, Megophryidae) from eastern Nepal
European Journal of Taxonomy, 989
2025/5
Trafficking of Galápagos iguanas as an example of a global problem: CITES permits, laundering and the role of transit countries in Europe and Africa
Biological conservation, 305
2025/5
Mapping the Missing: Assessing Amphibian Sampling Completeness and Overlap With Global Protected Areas
Ecology and Evolution, 5, 15
2025/5
Hymenoptera evolution: A long and winding road
Current Biology, 9, 35
2025/5
Generic affinities of African house snakes revised: a new genus for Lamprophis inornatus (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae: Lamprophiinae: Boaedontini)
Salamandra, 2, 61
2025/5
Agamidae in zoos: assessment of the threat status worldwide and their distribution patterns in zoological collections
Salamandra, 2, 61
2025/5
The tadpole of Stereocyclops histrio (Carvalho, 1954) (Anura: Microhylidae), a poorly known amphibian from northeastern Brazil
Zootaxa, 1, 5636
2025/5
Type genomics: a Framework for integrating Genomic Data into Biodiversity and Taxonomic research
Systematic Biology
2025/5
Toxins Under a Rock: Proteo-transcriptomic Analysis Reveals the Venom Composition of the Pseudoscorpion Ammogarypus lawrencei (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypidae)
Toxicon
2025/5
The Diversity and Phylogenetic Relationships of a Chaetopterus Symbiont Community in Djibouti, with Redescription of Chaetopterus djiboutiensis Gravier, 1906 Stat. Nov. (Annelida: Chaetopteridae)
Diversity, 5, 17
2025/4
The evolution of wasp mimicry and biogeography in the genus Temnostoma (Diptera: Syrphidae)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 205
2025/4
Species Delimitation Using Genomic Data: Options and Limitations
Molecular Ecology, 8, 34
2025/4
Differential vulnerability of key threatened mammals to climate and land cover changes in the Central Himalayas
Ecosphere, 4, 16
2025/4
Integrating Spatially-Explicit and Genetic Analyses to Identify Conservation Priorities for Bufo eichwaldi (Amphibia: Anura) in the Hyrcanian Forest
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 2025
2025/4
Baers’s Wood Mouse - Hylomyscus baeri
2025/4
Wimmer’s Shrew - Crocidura wimmeri
2025/4
Climate change is projected to shrink phylogenetic endemism of Neotropical frogs
Nature communications, 1, 16
2025/4
Material composition of the endophytic ovipositor in the damselfly, Calopteryx splendens (Odonata, Calopterygidae)
Journal of Insect Physiology
2025/4
Nomenclature protects stability only when supported by good science: a response to Frétey’s (2024) list of turtle genus-series nomina
Bionomina, 1, 41
2025/4
Multiple instances of river-lake introgression in the adaptive radiation of sailfin silversides in Wallace’s Dreampond
2025/4
The relative influence of habitat density, landscape configuration and spatial sorting on population expansion: a simulation test
Landscape Ecology, 5, 40
2025/4
“Out of the blue”, a new species of the monotypic genus Kinku Simon, 1889
Zootaxa, 5636, 3
2025/3
The big, the small and the weird: A phylogenomic analysis of extant Priapulida
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 204
2025/3
An annotated catalog of Annelida types at the Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology. Part I: Annelida: Errantia: Aciculata: Eunicida, Myzostomida, Aciculata incertae sedis, and Errantia: Protodriliformia
Evolutionary Systematics, 1, 9
2025/3
A review of Anobothrus Levinsen, 1884, restricted, with reinstatement of Anobothrella Hartman, 1967 and Melythasides Desbruyères, 1978, and redescription of seven species (Annelida, Ampharetidae)
Zootaxa, 2, 5601
2025/3
Taxonomic notes on the genus Himantopterus Wesmael (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Himantopteridae) with descriptions of three new taxa
Zootaxa, 2, 5601