Biological Systematics The state of the art /

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Autor principal: Minelli, Alessandro. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1993.
Edición:1st ed. 1993.
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9643-7
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.