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Adelpha californica

It was treated generally as a species (though it included Adelpha eulalia as a synonym) until 1944, when the entomologists Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter and Bertram Maurice Hobby reclassified it as a subspecies of Adelpha bredowii.

Amphiesmenoptera

Amphiesmenoptera is an insect superorder, established by Willi Hennig in his revision of insect taxonomy for two sister orders: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Trichoptera (caddisflies).

Army Intelligence

"A Knowledge Taxonomy for Army Intelligence Training: An Assessment of the Military Intelligence Basic Officer Leaders Course Using Lundvall’s Knowledge Taxonomy" Texas State University.

Aspidella

:Aspidella is also a synonym for the mushroom genus Amanita.

Bernard Ogilvie Dodge

As a graduate student and instructor at Columbia University, Dodge investigated the taxonomy and reproduction of species of Ascobolaceae.

Bloom's taxonomy

It is named for Benjamin Bloom, who chaired the committee of educators that devised the taxonomy, and who also edited the first volume of the standard text, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals.

Candidate division TM7

The candidate division TM7, is a major lineage of Bacteria, the existence of which is known solely through environmental 16S rRNA sequences as to date no species has been grown in the lab, a requirement for taxonomy, making it a candidate phylum.

Classification theory

For the practice and science of classification see Taxonomy and Library science

Donald M. Weisman

He is known for his work on the taxonomy of immature Lepidoptera.

Edwin H. McConkey

His contributions to taxonomy include classification of the Northern subspecies of Northern Mole Skink, Eumeces egregius similis.

Ernest Entwistle Cheesman

Returning to England he worked on the taxonomy of Musaceae at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew during the 1940s.

Ethnic conflict

John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary have developed a taxonomy of eight macro-political ethnic conflict regulation methods, which they note are often employed by states in combination with each other.

Fermín Martín Piera

Fermín Martín-Piera (1954–2001) was a specialist in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of Scarabaeoidea with special reference to dung beetles.

Gilberto Righi

During more than 40 highly productive years as professor and researcher at the University of São Paulo, Righi published over 100 scientific papers, 85 of which treat earthworm taxonomy, 5 treat earthworm physiology, 5 treat earthworm ecology, and 3 treat earthworm biogeography.

Göran Wahlenberg

He was among the first major scholars to contribute to the plant taxonomy and geography of the High Tatras in the Habsburg Monarchy where he carried out research in 1813 (he also determined mountain elevations, but some were later disproved by Ludwig Greiner).

Gottfried Knebel

He was the author of the cactus genus Opuntiopsis, an invalid name according to the current rules of botanical nomenclature; it is now a synonym of Schlumbergera.

Hans Melchior

Among his many contributions to taxonomy are his treatments of the Medusagynaceae, Theaceae, Violaceae, and Canellaceae for the second edition of the Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien of Engler & K. Prantl, the publication as editor with E. Werdermann, of ed.

Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy

The Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (IAAT) was established by Dr. K. S. Manilal and his colleagues in the year 1990.

Itis

Integrated Taxonomic Information System, a partnership designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species

James L. Reveal

James Lauritz Reveal (born 1941) is a botanist who is perhaps best known for his work on suprageneric names, presented in an extensive website, which also presents material on plant taxonomy including the Reveal system.

Jasminum humile

Numerous cultivars have been developed for garden use, of which 'Revolutum' (syn. J. reevesii Hort.) has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

John Todd Zimmer

He made systematic revisions of the taxonomy of the birds of Peru and their relatives in other parts of South America, and in his later years combined this with studies of New World flycatchers, preparing the section on the Tyrannidae for Peter's Check-list of Birds of the World.

José Luis Fernández Alonso

From 1991 to 2009, he was a professor and research officer at the Institute of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, training new biologists in the field of vegetable taxonomy and Colombian flora.

Madura horseshoe bat

Current taxonomy treats the Madura horseshoe bat as a species separate of the Sulawesi horseshoe bat and not including parvus, but Csorba et al. (2003) recognizes both as subspecies of the Sulawesi horseshoe bat.

Manuel Iturralde-Vinent

In the field of paleontology has been a prominent fossil hunter who shed light on Jurassic of Cuba with Argentinian researchers, especially Zulma Brandoni Gasparini, revising the taxonomy of Cuban species of marine reptiles and dinosaur.

Midway Plaisance

Statues of the father of modern taxonomy, Carolus Linnaeus, and an equestrian statue of the Knight of Blanik, a legendary Czech savior who emerges from Blaník mountain in his nation's hour of need by famed sculptor Albin Polasek, grace the Midway.

Morchella snyderi

The study, published in the journal Mycologia, resulted from the Morel Data Collection Project, which aimed to help clarify the taxonomy, biology, and distribution of morel species in North America.

Muscinae

From the 19th century, the term "Muscinae" is also an obsolete scientific name for the mosses (modern Bryophyta), once used in the taxonomy of Ernst Haeckel (circa 1899).

Nomen novum

This is an objective synonym of Jelskia Bourguignat, 1877, because he has the same type species, and is used today as Borysthenia.

Physaria globosa

Physaria globosa (syn. Lesquerella globosa), is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family commonly known as globe bladderpod, Short's bladderpod, and Lesquereux's mustard.

Puccinia jaceae var. solstitialis

In 1953, Hylander and colleagues synonymized P. jaceae with the P. hieracii, a species complex of rusts that attacked various Cichorieae plants.

Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid

Annals of the Botanical Garden of Madrid: This is the magazine published by the Botanical Garden, which publishes papers on plant taxonomy and systematics and fungi and related fields such as biogeography, bioinformatics, conservation, ecophysiology, phylogeny, phylogeography, floral, functional morphology, nomenclature or plant relationships -animal, including works of synthesis and review.

Ronald Pearson Tripp

Born in England in 1914, Tripp was self-taught in paleontology, but became an authority on the taxonomy of the trilobite families Encrinuridae, Lichidae, and Lichakephalidae – the latter of which he named.

Ruminococcus

As usual, bacteria taxonomy is in flux, with Clostridia being paraphyletic, and some erroneous members of Ruminococcus being reassigned to a new genus Blautia on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequences.

Saltugilia splendens

Saltugilia splendens (syn. Gilia splendens) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names Grinnell's gilia and splendid gilia.

Schlumbergera opuntioides

As with many other species of the genus (see Schlumbergera: Taxonomy), other generic names were used afterwards: Zygocactus (Löfgren in 1918), Epiphyllanthus (Moran in 1953) and finally Schlumbergera (David Hunt in 1969).

Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove

The taxonomy of the Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove is disputed, and some authorities split it into two species: M. amboinensis (Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and M. phasianella (Brown Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in the south, and most inland at Atherton and Toowoomba.

Structural Classification of Proteins database

The "TaxId" is the taxonomy ID number; it is also a link to the NCBI taxonomy browser, which provides more information about the species to which the protein belongs.

Therian

In taxonomy, the term refers to a member of the Mammalia subclass Theria, consisting of marsupial and placental mammals.

Utricularia spruceana

Peter Taylor had reduced this species to a synonym under U. resupinata in 1967 because the only difference between the specimens he examined at the time was the smaller size of U. spruceana.

Vulpes

The arctic fox is sometimes included in this genus as Vulpes lagopus based on the definitive mammal taxonomy list, as well as genetic evidence.

Western trumpeter whiting

The species has only ever been assigned one synonym, S. maculata burrus by Whitley in 1948 with apparently no reason given for the reassignment, although McKay also treated the species as a subspecies of S. maculata in his comprehensive revision of the Sillaginidae.

Wettstein

Wettstein system, system of plant taxonomy developed by Richard Wettstein

White-barred Piculet

The taxonomy is difficult, as it hybridizes widely with numerous other piculets such as the Varzea, Ochre-collared and White-wedged Piculet.

Wyoming toad

The Wyoming toad or Baxter's toad (Bufo baxteri syn. Anaxyrus baxteri) is an extremely rare amphibian that exists only in captivity and within Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming in the United States.

Yelkouan Shearwater

Sibley, Charles Gald & Monroe, Burt L. Jr. (1990): Distribution and taxonomy of the birds of the world.


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