taxonomic
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Andrew Kitchener, an expert in mammals at National Museums, Scotland, who was not involved with the research, says the small spotted South American cats known as tiger cats have been a "taxonomic nightmare".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Like Mr. Wells before him, Mr. Hoser founded a journal and began publishing new taxonomic descriptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Complete taxonomic descriptions of the genus and its species were published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
To reach their conclusions, the team examined the taxonomic records of roughly 2 million species from across all major forms of life.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025
The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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