"I hope to bring some public attention to the importance of conservation of the fragile habitats in the United States that still contain undescribed and threatened species, and generate interest in the importance of alpha-taxonomy in better understanding the neglected micro-fauna component of the North American biodiversity," he said.
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Raymond Brendan Manning (October 11, 1934 – January 18, 2000) was an American carcinologist, specialising in alpha taxonomy and mantis shrimp.
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The species name refers to the sexual dimorphism., 2015: Alpha taxonomy of the genus Kessleria Nowicki, 1864, revisited in light of DNA-barcoding (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae). ZooKeys, 503: 89-133.
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The species name refers to the Apennines, where all type specimens have been collected., 2015: Alpha taxonomy of the genus Kessleria Nowicki, 1864, revisited in light of DNA-barcoding (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae). ZooKeys, 503: 89-133.
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The specific name refers to the type locality in the Cottian Alps (Alpi Cozie, Alpes cottiennes).Huemer, Peter & Mutanen, Marko (2015). "Alpha taxonomy of the genus Kessleria Nowicki, 1864, revisited in light of DNA-barcoding (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae)". ZooKeys, 503: 89-133.
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The species name refers to the Orobian Alps (Alpi Orobie) in northern Italy, where the type locality is situated., 2015: Alpha taxonomy of the genus Kessleria Nowicki, 1864, revisited in light of DNA-barcoding (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae). ZooKeys, 503: 89-133.
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However, if the frogs were to be raised in captivity, their legs would be light brown, and no dorsal markings would be present. This change occurs mainly because of the presence of molecules that are related to phylogeny when they are kept in captivity. This is done for the most part to resolve the alpha-taxonomy of this frog, which has now become a vulnerable species.
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Krebs (1976) considered it to be a rauisuchid, as did Chatterjee (1985) and Carroll (1988). Procerosuchus has been suggested to be member of the subfamily Rauisuchinae and the tribe Rauisuchini. However, the genus has not yet been included in any phylogenetic analyses of rauisuchians, and its classification remains uncertain. The alpha taxonomy of rauisuchians is still debated (the order itself is now considered paraphyletic) and the anatomy of many taxa, including Procerosuchus, has not yet been thoroughly described.
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The original specimen was assigned to the genus Rhynchobatis without a species name by Philippi in 1858; David Starr Jordan considered that genus name preoccupied (by Rhynchobatus) and coined the new scientific name Tarsistes philippii for it in 1919. However, the holotype has never been studied or described since, so the status of this species is uncertain. In their revision of the generic alpha- taxonomy of Rhinobatidae, Last et al. (2016) considered Tarsistes a possible synonym of Pseudobatos.
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The shortened term "vasculum" appear to have become the common name applied to them around 1830. Being a hallmark of field botany, the vascula were in common use until World War II . With post-war emphasis on systematics rather than alpha taxonomy and new species often collected in far-away places, field botany and the vascula with it went into decline. Aluminium vascula are still made and in use, though zipper bags and clear plastic folders are today cheaper and more common in use.
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The term "alpha taxonomy" is primarily used today to refer to the discipline of finding, describing, and naming taxa, particularly species. In earlier literature, the term had a different meaning, referring to morphological taxonomy, and the products of research through the end of the 19th century. William Bertram Turrill introduced the term "alpha taxonomy" in a series of papers published in 1935 and 1937 in which he discussed the philosophy and possible future directions of the discipline of taxonomy. > ... there is an increasing desire amongst taxonomists to consider their > problems from wider viewpoints, to investigate the possibilities of closer > co-operation with their cytological, ecological and genetics colleagues and > to acknowledge that some revision or expansion, perhaps of a drastic nature, > of their aims and methods, may be desirable ... Turrill (1935) has suggested > that while accepting the older invaluable taxonomy, based on structure, and > conveniently designated "alpha", it is possible to glimpse a far-distant > taxonomy built upon as wide a basis of morphological and physiological facts > as possible, and one in which "place is found for all observational and > experimental data relating, even if indirectly, to the constitution, > subdivision, origin, and behaviour of species and other taxonomic groups".
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The Entomological Society of Israel (ISE) was founded on 20 February 1962 after more than 20 years of ad hoc meetings and discussions of various entomological issues. The founders included about 80 members, most prominent of them being Yehezkel Rivnay, Chanan Bitinsky-Zaltz, Rachel Galun, Yitzhak Harpaz, Meir Pener and Shoshana Yatom. The Society is active in promoting various disciplines of arthropod research, ranging from alpha-taxonomy to molecular biology, organizing meetings and granting awards. Members of the Entomological Society of Israel meet annually at a Congress, where recent achievements in both basic and applied research are reported and discussed.
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According to a precise set of rules laid down in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) and the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), the scientific name of every taxon is almost always based on one particular specimen, or in some cases specimens. Types are of great significance to biologists, especially to taxonomists. Types are usually physical specimens that are kept in a museum or herbarium research collection, but failing that, an image of an individual of that taxon has sometimes been designated as a type. Describing species and appointing type specimens is part of scientific nomenclature and alpha taxonomy.
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Penguin tracks in the sand on Bruny Island, Tasmania The evolutionary history of penguins is well-researched and represents a showcase of evolutionary biogeography. Although penguin bones of any one species vary much in size and few good specimens are known, the alpha taxonomy of many prehistoric forms still leaves much to be desired. Some seminal articles about penguin prehistory have been published since 2005; Supplementary Material the evolution of the living genera can be considered resolved by now. The basal penguins lived around the time of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event somewhere in the general area of (southern) New Zealand and Byrd Land, Antarctica.
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He further excludes phylogenetic reconstruction from alpha taxonomy (pp. 365–366). Later authors have used the term in a different sense, to mean the delimitation of species (not subspecies or taxa of other ranks), using whatever investigative techniques are available, and including sophisticated computational or laboratory techniques. Thus, Ernst Mayr in 1968 defined "beta taxonomy" as the classification of ranks higher than species. > An understanding of the biological meaning of variation and of the > evolutionary origin of groups of related species is even more important for > the second stage of taxonomic activity, the sorting of species into groups > of relatives ("taxa") and their arrangement in a hierarchy of higher > categories.
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David Adamski is an American entomologist working as a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and a support scientist in the Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL), United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.SDSU Scientists Re-discover Switchgrass Moth, Biomass Magazine He obtained a PhD degree from the Mississippi State University, Department of Entomology in 1987 after defending a dissertation, titled "The Morphology and evolution of North American Blastobasidae (Lepidoptera:Gelechioidea)".The Morphology and evolution of North American Blastobasidae (Lepidoptera:Gelechioidea), Mississippi State University, Department of Entomology, 1987 His research interests focus on alpha taxonomy, life histories and morphology of moths.Moonlight Moth, February 5, 2014 Over the years, Adamski produced more than 80 scholarly publications, some in collaboration, shedding light on discernible groups of Lepidoptera including Gelechioidea, Tortricoidea, Pyralidoidea, and Noctuoidea. He studied divergent taxa within the Auchenorrhyncha and Sternorrhyncha, and Phytophagous Acari, as well as Gelechioidea and Blastobasidae.
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