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Geographic Perspectives - Pacific Basin
Taxonomy: Classifying Organisms in the Pacific Basin
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Taxonomy is the branch of science that focuses on the classification of living things. At the heart of this endeavor is nomenclature; that is, the scientific names that are applied to groups of living things. A Swedish naturalist named Carl Linnaeus devised a hierarchical system for assigning latinized names to organisms. More information!
Bishop Museum / PBIN (External) Taxonomic Service - Search the museum's taxonomic authority database to retrieve species level information, including access to the 4 million specimens from the Hawaii Biological Survey collections for plants, mammals, fish, insects, and snails.
Other Taxonomic Databases:
(External) ITIS - The Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
(External) GRIN - The Germplasm Resources Information Network.
(External) IPINI - The International Plant Names Index.
(External) Flora of the Hawaiian Islands - The online system hosted by the Smithsonian.
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