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New species are discovered every day -and cataloguing all of them has grown into a nearly insurmountable task world-wide. Now, this definitive reference manual acts as a style guide for writing and filing species descriptions. New collecting techniques and new technology have led to a dramatic... read more

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When Carl Linnaeus published the first edition of his Systema Naturae in 1735, he probably thought he was close to fulfilling his ambition of classifying all the plants and animals in the world.

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  1. Judith E. Winston (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0231068247
Page Count: 512

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