1st Edition

Taxonomic Nomenclature What’s in a Name – Theory and History

By Igor Ya. Pavlinov Copyright 2022
276 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

276 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

276 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book suggests an in-depth look at nomenclature in systematics instead of providing another "instruction for use" of various Codes of nomenclature. The focus is on ideas of what taxonomic nomenclature is as a part of the professional language of systematics considered in its full historical and conceptual scope. Basic concepts of nomenclature are outlined, and their development characterized;... Read more

Chapter 01

Taxonomic Theory and Nomenclature

Chapter 02

Basic Elements of a Theory of Nomenclature

Chapter 03

Basic Principles of Nomenclature

Chapter 04

History of Nomenclature: An Overview and The Beginning

Chapter 05

History of Nomenclature: The Essentialist Rule

Chapter 06

History of Nomenclature: The Nominalist Route

Chapter 07

History of Nomenclature: The Conceptualist Route

Biography

Igor Ya. Pavlinov was, until his retirement in 2018, the chief of the Mammal Division at the Zoological Museum at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.