[Taxacom] Why Taxonomy does NOT matter

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 4/18/2011 2:19 PM, Richard Zander wrote:
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> Collections in general commonly are poorly named. Some collectors are topnotch in getting the right name on things, others so-so, still others are poor. Then, there are the ecologists . . . :)

* was once chided for writing "bird watching" for what the bureaucracy 
would only have understood when expressed as "avian resource data 
acquisition," so maybe rather than "taxonomy," the activity of 
taxonomists should be denominated "biodiversity database specimen-truthing."

fred schueler
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