Today we have naming of parts

摘要

At the moment, the department of entomology at London's Natural History Museum is being rearranged, by bulldozer. It isn't a bad emblem for the broader changes transforming the science of taxonomy. Walls and ceilings are being torn down, and the tatty furniture has been thrown out. Change was due, because nearly 250 years after Carl von Linne, a Swedish naturalist, invented the modern system of naming living creatures, taxono-mists still have no official list of all the animals discovered so far. This makes the work of biologists, ecologists and conservationists-who rely on species names to know just what it is they are studying and conserving-more difficult than it need be.