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🔬 Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day!🔬

WoRMS has announced the Top 10 Marine Species Described in 2022

One of them being Lamarckdromia beagle, the Fluffy Sponge Crab named by Dr. Andrew Hosie and Colin McLay!

Who I drew as a bard, because he has a silly hat 🥺

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2023-03-20

Here's Alyssa, a cosmic Taxonomist who is sent to uncharted worlds across the universe to gather information and categorize organisms!

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2022-09-23

Linnaeus - Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy"

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2022-08-18


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I'm Uhunwa Precious Igho-Osagie,Msc. and I am a plant Taxonomist. I'm currently working on the genus Albizia Durazz in Nigeria 🇳🇬

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2022-08-01

Modern taxonomy is more about collaboration than ever! Here are some of the 83 I've described with *incredible* colleagues, especially Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences, Jörn Köhler, , and

Full list here: https://t.co/6y1dkE1EGL

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2022-03-20

reading ecology papers as a taxonomist

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2022-01-28

Catsbergine is a plant species belonging to the same family as aubergines. Very rarely seen in nature, this creature is found floating in the dense forests of tezos blockchain and thrives on 0101001. It’s believed only 100 catsberigines exist. Your beloved taxonomist, sonicchimes

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2021-07-04

"Taxonomists frequently name species after colleagues or wealthy patrons from the Global North. However, these names often carry little ecological information compared with pre-existing Indigenous names related to species habits and uses." https://t.co/io8s3R55On

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2021-05-25

The fairy tree frog (Charadrahyla chaneque) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae endemic to Mexico, I did a sketch last year. Happy

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2021-03-21

Thought I would add to the !
I have done biological illustrations for a PhD student at my local university in a lab with a team of taxonomists, microscope equipment and real specimen samples~! The I.rufoniger was SMOL... needed a bigger microscope!

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2020-08-28

Wow twitter followers. Thank you! New followers, HI! I’m a systematic ichthyologist and taxonomist. I describe new species of fishes, and work out their evolutionary histories and relationships using molecular and morphological techniques. I LOVE FISHES. Hope you do too! 🐠

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2020-06-17

Old page:
I know I've offended some taxonomist somewhere. I apologize.
https://t.co/I7qbVkBKUC

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2020-04-17

I have been reading JJ Audubon's biography ..and I wondered if he ever painted a sure did! see the burrowing cray on the White Ibis print !! Now here is a challenge for you crayfish taxonomists! What species is it!??

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2020-03-30

New Nature paper on insect declines. Interesting read. But rage at the part about identifying specimens (or lack of it). No taxonomists available?? I bet there were but was lack of funds to pay for this. Severally limits interpretation again as just 2 orders were properly studied

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2019-11-02

I’m a how can I promote te reo Māori? Easy! use Māori when naming new Here examples frm botanical collection Raukaua simplex, Phyllocladus toatoa, rakiura & wairauensis

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2019-09-09

Did you know that the name 'Bathygnathus' currently has priority over the name 'Dimetrodon' until an opinion on the reversal of precedence is published by ? https://t.co/lGs96u10Aa

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2019-03-20

Journalists need taxonomists http://t.co/eGaxtis13l article about Nepenthes, photo of Sarracenia!

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2015-01-21