The Journal

Eikoniki Taxonomy is an image-focused scientific publisher dedicated to high-quality taxonomic and morphological work. It combines visual precision with scientific rigour, producing papers that are both analytically sound and visually clear.

Purpose

Taxonomy and the visual documentation of biodiversity are more important than ever. They form the foundation for biological understanding, yet within current research metrics they are often undervalued and pushed to the margins.

Eikoniki provides a platform where careful observation, imagery, and description are recognised as essential scientific work. By combining visual precision with scientific rigour, Eikoniki supports the accurate and enduring documentation of biodiversity.

The Name

Eikoniki comes from the Greek εἰκονική, meaning of the image, of representation. It reflects a commitment to balance image and text, recognising that photographs and illustrations carry as much weight as written description in documenting biodiversity.

TaxonImprint

TaxonImprint is a structured evidentiary framework developed within Eikoniki Taxonomy to make the evidential basis of species-level taxonomy explicit, consistent, and transparent. It provides a token-based architecture for documenting the forms of data used in a taxonomic act, including morphology, anatomy, genetics, phylogenetics, ecology, biogeography, and type material, in a concise and machine-readable format. It is also fully human-readable and indexable, enabling the same evidentiary information to function both as narrative support and as structured metadata.

The goal of TaxonImprint is to support both classical and integrative approaches, improve reproducibility, and help future revisers clearly understand the evidence that supports each species hypothesis. It is equally valuable to curators, database managers, data scientists, and others who rely on transparent, comparable metadata reflecting the evidentiary foundations of taxonomic work.

A full description of the framework, including domain structure, token definitions, and worked examples, will be published in the inaugural issue of Eikoniki Taxonomy. Learn more →