Animal systematics and taxonomy provide the fundamental framework for understanding the immense diversity of animal life. By integrating traditional morphological evaluation with modern molecular ...

Humans make stuff up—including the names and classifications of living things. But those categories are still useful. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how taxonomy and systematics ...

Orchid classification has undergone a series of significant changes during the past decade as molecular phylogenetic studies have examined relationships at all taxonomie levels in the family. Today, ...

Brittle stars (Class Ophiuroidea) represent a remarkably diverse group of echinoderms with an extensive fossil record that has long provided insight into marine evolution and biogeography. Recent ...

Based on extensive molecular studies and critical evaluation of morphology, tribe Arabideae has recently been split into two tribes with the newly introduced tribe Stevenieae sister to the remaining ...

A program at the Smithsonian’s Bocas del Toro Research Station, in Panama, allows marine invertebrate experts to pass down their very specific knowledge to aspiring taxonomists. Vanessa Crooks ...

"This book presents an up-to-date classification of Australian birds. Building on the authors' 1994 book, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories, it incorporates the ...

EBIO's disciplinary strengths include ecology, evolution, genetics, behavior, and systematics. Our research programs have relevance for global change, conservation biology, the spread of diseases, and ...

We are offering a five-day course to learn how to collect and identify freshwater species to inform water quality and ecology. This training initiative targets PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, ...

I am a Principal Curator of the NHM's non-insect Invertebrate collections, with responsibilities for material across many collections. In particular, I am responsible for the Bivalvia and smaller ...