[Taxacom] Taxonomic revision

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 05:34 AM 10/28/2009, Fabian Haas wrote:
>is there soem nice crisp definition for a 'taxonomic revision'.

Try these references for a start:

Leenhouts, P. W. 1968.  A guide to the practice of herbarium 
taxonomy.  Regnum Vegetabile
58: 1-60.

Maxted, N. 1992.  Towards defining a taxonomic revision methodology.  Taxon 
41: 653-660.

Qualls, D. 1986.  Summary for revisionary studies of plant taxa.  Pp. 
467-468.  In: A. E. Radford, Fundamentals of plant systematics.  Harper & 
Row, New York.

Vogel, E. F. de (ed.) 1987.  Manual of herbarium taxonomy: theory and 
practice.  UNESCO, Jakarta.

Watson, M. 1997.  On revising a genus.  Plant Talk 10: 31-34.

Winston, J. E. 1999.  Describing species: practical taxonomic procedure for 
biologists.  Columbia University Press, New York.




Thomas G. Lammers
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/biology/Lammers.htm

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