Capacity building in taxonomy and systematics

Protozoan Taxonomy and Systematics

The classification of protozoa and other microorganisms above the organizational level of the bacteria has always been dependent on microscopy because the body sizes involved generally range from only one micrometre to one or two millimetres in length. Any structures these species possess, useful in comparative studies of their morphology and thus their taxonomyand systematics, are at the cellu...

Numerical Taxonomy: Its Value to Mosquito Systematics

Nielsen's (1969) article in the last issue of this Newsletter motivated me to write the following comments. It was not because he criticized numerical taxonomy (NT), but rather, in my opinion, he criticized aspects of NT that either a) no longer need to be criticized, or b) are not the fault of the methods of numerical taxonomy but of the people who use them, in this case, Steward (1968). Like ...

Systematics in Sileneae (Caryophyllaceae) – Taxonomy and Phylogenetic patterns

The house mouse and its relatives: systematics and taxonomy

A quarter of a century before the advent of biochemical tools for taxonomic approaches, Schwarz and Schwarz (1943) published a pioneering survey of the systematics of the house mouse. All taxa were then considered as subspecies of the house mouse (Mus musculus). In other words, there was only one species within the subgenus Mus. It was a relatively large-scale study, but the taxonomic criteria ...

Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)

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