The process of standardizing taxon names, taxonomic name harmonization, is necessary to
properly merge data indexed by taxon names. The large variety of taxonomic databases and …

Those who seek answers to big, broad questions about biology, especially questions
emphasizing the organism (taxonomy, evolution and ecology), will soon benefit from an …

Abstract Fauna Europaea is Europe's main zoological taxonomic index, making the scientific
names and distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and …

The World Register of Marine Species is an over 90% complete open-access inventory of all
marine species names. Here we illustrate the scale of the problems with species names …

The time is ripe for a comprehensive mission to explore and document Earth's species. This
calls for a campaign to educate and inspire the next generation of professional and citizen …

Recent advances in molecular technology have revolutionized research on all aspects of the
biology of organisms, including ciliates, and created unprecedented opportunities for …

Better scientific knowledge of the poorly-known deep sea and areas beyond national
jurisdiction (ABNJ) is key to its conservation, an urgent need in light of increasing …

Mars is dry today, but numerous precipitation-fed paleo-rivers are found across the planet's
surface. These rivers' existence is a challenge to models of planetary climate evolution. We …

The World Register of Marine species (WoRMS) has been established for a decade. The
early history of the database involved compilation of existing global and regional species …

Abstract the Chinese stiletto fly fauna is poorly known, with few species previously described
and no endemic genera. A new genus and species of charismatic stiletto fly is described …