Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean ArkAndrew Polaszek The advent of relational databasing and data storage capacity, coupled with revolutionary advances in molecular sequencing technology and specimen imaging, have led to a taxonomic renaissance. Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean Ark maps the origins of this renaissance, beginning with Linnaeus, through his "apostles", via the great unsung hero Charl |
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... genus by a single term and the species within it by a brief diagnostic description. Linnaeus took the next step by simplifying the procedure with a single Latinized name for the genus coupled with a single Latinized name assigned to the ...
... genus by a single term and the species within it by a brief diagnostic description. Linnaeus took the next step by simplifying the procedure with a single Latinized name for the genus coupled with a single Latinized name assigned to the ...
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... genus into species. Apart from the six classes, Linnaeus also gave half a column to what he called Paradoxa, a wild-card group of chimerical or simply befuddling creatures such as the unicorn, the phoenix, the dragon, the satyr, and a ...
... genus into species. Apart from the six classes, Linnaeus also gave half a column to what he called Paradoxa, a wild-card group of chimerical or simply befuddling creatures such as the unicorn, the phoenix, the dragon, the satyr, and a ...
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... genus Rolandria. Nevertheless, some modern scholars maintain that Rolander was mentally ill even while in Surinam and accomplished little or nothing.24 Rolander the botanist is then invisible, present but not visible in the shadow of ...
... genus Rolandria. Nevertheless, some modern scholars maintain that Rolander was mentally ill even while in Surinam and accomplished little or nothing.24 Rolander the botanist is then invisible, present but not visible in the shadow of ...
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Contents
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A Matter of Life and Death | 29 |
Chapter 5 Engineering a Linnaean Ark of Knowledge for a Deluge of Species | 53 |
An Impediment to Biodiversity Studies? | 63 |
Diptera Names since Systema Naturae 1758 | 75 |
Chapter 8 ePublish or Perish? | 83 |
New Tools Applied to Accelerate the Taxonomic Process | 137 |
Strategies for Managing the BIG Index of All Scientific Names | 149 |
Chapter 15 LinnaeusSherbornZooBank | 163 |
Reviewing the First Year and Preparing for the Next 250 | 173 |
Chapter 17 Celebrating 250 Dynamic Years of Nomenclatural Debates | 185 |
Chapter 18 250 Years of Swedish Taxonomy | 241 |
Concordance of Linnaeuss Names for Rolanders Insects | 253 |
A Partial List of Rolanders Insects in De Geers Original Drawings | 265 |
Promising Signs from a MegaJornal in Taxonomy | 95 |
The OnRamp to Taxonomic Names | 109 |
Chapter 11 Future Taxonomy | 117 |
A New Digital Resource for Taxonomy | 127 |
Index | 267 |
Back cover | 285 |
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Actinobacillus adopted animals application authors barcode binomial binominal nomenclature biodiversity informatics Biodiversity Information biological Blanchard botanical Bouchet Candolle Catalogue challenges characters classification Code of Zoological collections Commission on Zoological conservation database Dayrat Diarium Diptera DNA barcoding edition electronic entomologists Figure GBIF Geer Sys Geer’s genera genus global groups holotype ICZN Index informatics insects International Code International Commission journals Linnaean Linnaean Enterprise Linnaeus Linnaeus’s Linné literature London LSID molecular Museum name-bearing types Natural History naturalists Nomenclator nomenclatural acts NRM box organisms PhyloCode phylogenetic plants Platygastroidea Polaszek Principle of Priority proposed protoconch publication published rank-based codes reference registration Retzius Rolander Rolander’s rules scientific names species names Strickland Code Surinam Sweden Swedish synonyms synonymy Systema Naturae Systematic Zoology taxa taxon taxon labels taxon names taxonomic taxonomists tion type specimens ZooBank Zoological Nomenclature zoologists zoos Zootaxa