Sentences with phrase «says taxonomist»

Interpreting the scales as a sign of an early moth proboscis is «possible,» says taxonomist Erik van Nieukerken of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, whose specialties include early moths.

If these beetles do primarily feed on slime mold, I'd say the taxonomist that named them really did think about the etymology of the binomen before naming them.

Not exact matches

Since its discovery in 1822 by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles, Rafflesia's family background has eluded botanists, says plant taxonomist Todd Barkman of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

«Pull out the genitalia,» says Maxi Polihronakis, a beetle taxonomist at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, «and often everything becomes clear.»

Taxonomists could become «like expert witnesses,» says Kent Redford of the Wildlife Conservation Society Institute.

Taxonomists need to stop holding out pigheadedly for «the big one,» the ultimate concept that covers all species, he says.

Ask a taxonomist to estimate Earth's total inventory of species, and they'll probably say 30 million.

Standardizing species concepts across broad groups, mammals and reptiles, for instance, would reduce the chaos, says coauthor Leslie Christidis, a taxonomist at Southern Cross University in Coffs Harbour.

«Taxonomists would shoot me if I said, «Genes could replace taxonomy,» but for a lot of species, genes are the only data we're going to have.

So far, he says, their contribution to global biodiversity has gone unrecognised because there are only about twenty active marine nematode taxonomists in the world.

This binomial nomenclature guards against confusion if, say, a bug taxonomist and a mammal taxonomist (who tend to run in different scientific circles and probably are not reading each other's publications) want to (or inadvertently) assign the same species name to the group of organisms they happen to be excited about at the time.