Background Taxonomy or biological systematics is the basic scientific discipline of biology,
postulating hypotheses of identity and relationships, on which all other natural sciences …

For over a decade, molecular short standardised DNA fragments, termed DNA barcodes,
have been developed for species discrimination around the world. As of 2010, the vast …

In zoological nomenclature, to be potentially valid, nomenclatural novelties (ie, new nomina
and nomenclatural acts) need first to be made available, that is, published in works …

An updated synthesis of cyanobacteria and algae information is presented for Brazil aiming
to refine the data gathered to date and evaluate the progress of the biodiversity knowledge …

Mora et al. disputed that most species will be discovered before they go extinct, but not our
main recommendations to accelerate species' discoveries. We show that our conclusions …

Mountain ranges cover around one-half of the territory of Iran. Although it is well-known that
these mountains are characterized by high levels of endemism, no assessment of vascular …

Geographic and political factors affect global research in many areas of biology with
substantial field components. Progress in new species discovery continues to be …

Aim To analyse if the historical species description process in 10 animal groups differed
among widespread and endemic species and to evaluate whether our current knowledge …

The recent literature is rich in papers sounding the alarm about taxonomy. We analyzed data
from the Zoological Record (1864–2010 and 1978–2010) to show that we cannot speak of a …

The type localities of new mite species described in two journals (Systematic & Applied
Acarology and Zootaxa) during the last six years (2007–2012) were surveyed to detect …