NOUN
- a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior
How To Use taxonomist In A Sentence
- The Canada Goose is a highly variable species which has long caused headaches for taxonomists.
- Since its creation the Sporozoa class was found to have protists from numerous unrelated lineages, and has not been used by modern taxonomists for some time. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- There is currently a shortage of taxonomists and biosystematists - experts who identify and describe species.
- Other taxonomists insist that the wild artichoke gave rise to the cultivated cardoon, while still others feel it was the cardoon that begat the artichoke.
- Insect taxonomists, describing the cosmopolitans, have carefully spelled out their breeding sites.
- Since Linnaeus, taxonomists have added the categories phylum and family, along with numerous subdivisions such as subclass, superorder, subfamily, subspecies, and others. Trout and Salmon of North America
- Charles Darwin divided taxonomists into lumpers and splitters.
- Charles Darwin divided taxonomists into lumpers and splitters.
- For there was much speculation and controversy among professional taxonomists at the time about the distinction between a variety and a species.
- For decades, taxonomists couldn't agree whether to classify jacanas with rails or shorebirds; genetic studies now appear to confirm the latter.