The classification of the North American darters (Percidae: Etheostomatinae) has been a subject of historical interest and rigorous debate. Conflicting morphological and molecular phylogenetic ...

Taxonomy is an organizing principle of biology and is ideally based on evolutionary relationships among organisms. Development of a robust bacterial taxonomy has been hindered by an inability to ...

Classification is a natural human propensity—we organize our clothes, our kitchen cupboards, and our toys. This applies to the natural world, too, where animals and plants are grouped based on ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; ...

China has 31,362 species of vascular plants, more than any country on the planet except Brazil and Colombia, and this number represents 8%–12% of the world diversity of vascular plants. With the two ...