The integrative future of taxonomy Frontiers in Zoology

Overview The authors of the revised taxonomy underscore this dynamism, using verbs and gerunds to label their categories and subcategories (rather than the

Technically, taxonomy terms are an entity type and the entity subtypes are the vocabularies Like other entities, taxonomy terms can have fields

taxonomy Supports searching the taxonomy tree using partial taxonomic names, common names, wild cards and phonetically similar names For each taxonomic node, the tool

taxonomy application of this system to the Lepidoptera is indi- cated by Figure 33 In certain special cases special names may be desirable Evolution and Taxonomy 93