Biological Systematics The state of the art - Minelli, Alessandro; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1993)
One: Problems and Methods -- 1 Systems and classifications -- 2 Some steps in comparative biology -- 3 Biochemical and molecular systematics -- 4 The species -- 5 Resources and media -- Two: The State of the Art -- 6 The inventory of natural diversity -- 7 Towards the system -- 8 Interviews on the daily work of systematists: problems and trends -- 9 The unequal distribution of taxonomic diversity -- 10 Domesticated animals and cultivated plants -- Three: Epilogue -- 11 Some dangerous trends, and a hope for the future -- Appendices -- 1 Zoological checklists and catalogues -- 2 Möhn's (1984) general classification of living organisms -- 3 'Provisional classification' of the Protista, according to Corliss -- 4 Phyla and classes of the Protoctista (Corliss' Protista) according to Margulis et al (1990) -- 5 Möhn's (1984) classification of animals -- 6 Nielsen's (1985) classification of the Animalia -- 7 Ehlers's (1985) system of Plathelminthes -- 8 Jamieson's (1988) system of the Oligochaeta -- 9 Salvini-Plawen's (1980) classification of the Phylum Mollusca -- 10 Haszprunar's (1986) classification of gastropods -- 11 Weygoldt and Paulus's (1979) system of the Chelicerata -- 12 Shultz's (1990) system of the Chelicerata -- 13 Schram's (1986) classification of the Crustacea -- 14 Starobogatov's (1988) classification of the Crustacea -- 15 Hennig's (1969) system of the Insecta -- 16 Hennig's (1985) system of the Chordata -- 17 The major groups of Chordata according to Nelson (1969) -- 18 Rosen et al.'s (1981) classification of gnathostome vertebrates -- 19 Carroll's (1987) classification of vertebrates, including both -- extinct and living forms -- 20 Lauder and Liem's (1983) classification of living bony fishes -- 21 Sibley and Ahlquist's (1990) classification of birds -- 22 Bremer's (1985) cladistic classification of green plants -- 23 Dahlgren's (1989a,b) classification of the flowering plants -- References -- Author index -- Taxonomic index.
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Animal systematics; Animal taxonomy; Evolutionary Biology; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.