Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness
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January 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness
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Heard about the new taxonomic split? This is now the Neon Yellow Warbler.
June 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Heard about the new taxonomic split? This is now the Neon Yellow Warbler.
Felis catus is her taxonomic nomenclature
November 19, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Felis catus is her taxonomic nomenclature
Is Cookie Monster his name or his taxonomic classification
July 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Is Cookie Monster his name or his taxonomic classification
Good morning creatures, monsters, and beings who defy taxonomic placement.
March 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good morning creatures, monsters, and beings who defy taxonomic placement.
This is the famous Venezuelan Poodle Moth (Artace sp.), a distinctively fluffy, white insect w/ prominent bulbous dark eyes and feathery antennae.
First photographed in 2009 by Arthur Anker in the Gran Sabana region of Venezuela. Its exact taxonomic classification remains debated by entomologists.
First photographed in 2009 by Arthur Anker in the Gran Sabana region of Venezuela. Its exact taxonomic classification remains debated by entomologists.
August 27, 2026 at 3:06 AM
This is the famous Venezuelan Poodle Moth (Artace sp.), a distinctively fluffy, white insect w/ prominent bulbous dark eyes and feathery antennae.
First photographed in 2009 by Arthur Anker in the Gran Sabana region of Venezuela. Its exact taxonomic classification remains debated by entomologists.
First photographed in 2009 by Arthur Anker in the Gran Sabana region of Venezuela. Its exact taxonomic classification remains debated by entomologists.
Your taxonomic post of the day
The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs.
September 2, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Your taxonomic post of the day
Taxonomic outrage is valid.
For the last time:
“Elasmobranchs” are sharks, skates, and rays.
“Chondrichthyans” are sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.
These terms are not interchangeable. Stop using them interchangeably!
“Elasmobranchs” are sharks, skates, and rays.
“Chondrichthyans” are sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.
These terms are not interchangeable. Stop using them interchangeably!
January 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Taxonomic outrage is valid.
hey congrats dude I heard you're up for taxonomic revision
September 23, 2026 at 6:40 PM
hey congrats dude I heard you're up for taxonomic revision
There is taxonomy & field work crisis in palaeontology, with new generations of palaeontologists pressed for mass data and methodology research, removed from taxonomic & geological work ergo primary data collection.
There's a stigma on purely taxonomic research. The bread-n-butter of the field.
There's a stigma on purely taxonomic research. The bread-n-butter of the field.
"Extinction of experience" in disciplines like ecology & paleobiology isn't just about fieldwork. It's also the loss of taxonomic expertise. Any focus on Big Data, divorced from knowledge of natural history, is a largely vacuous enterprise with limited capacity to generate meaningful insights. 🧪
January 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
There is taxonomy & field work crisis in palaeontology, with new generations of palaeontologists pressed for mass data and methodology research, removed from taxonomic & geological work ergo primary data collection.
There's a stigma on purely taxonomic research. The bread-n-butter of the field.
There's a stigma on purely taxonomic research. The bread-n-butter of the field.
Yoda’s taxonomic ancestor
May 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Yoda’s taxonomic ancestor
Attending a “three under the sea” 3rd birthday party and impressed people by having a squid expert on speed dial. Thanks @sarahmackattack.bsky.social for your taxonomic evaluation of the snacks.
February 21, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Attending a “three under the sea” 3rd birthday party and impressed people by having a squid expert on speed dial. Thanks @sarahmackattack.bsky.social for your taxonomic evaluation of the snacks.
Doing the Goodall (getting ape jacked so a primatologist shorty will devote her life to conserving my taxonomic tribe)
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Doing the Goodall (getting ape jacked so a primatologist shorty will devote her life to conserving my taxonomic tribe)
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge
The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms, unifies 267 yr of taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geograph
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September 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...
Oceanic gigantism is the tendency for species of deep-sea dwelling animals to be larger than their shallower-water relatives across a large taxonomic range.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Oceanic gigantism is the tendency for species of deep-sea dwelling animals to be larger than their shallower-water relatives across a large taxonomic range.
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nice taxonomic coverage!
October 1, 2026 at 3:05 PM
nice taxonomic coverage!
This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time.
The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.
The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time.
The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.
The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.
#FossilFriday Tentaculitids galore on this piece of Ordovician siltstone from Shropshire, all preserved as moulds following dissolution of their calcareous shells. The taxonomic affinity of this common group of Palaeozoic invertebrates is uncertain.
March 13, 2026 at 7:01 AM
#FossilFriday Tentaculitids galore on this piece of Ordovician siltstone from Shropshire, all preserved as moulds following dissolution of their calcareous shells. The taxonomic affinity of this common group of Palaeozoic invertebrates is uncertain.
Few better illustrate the taxonomic uncertainties of “basal passerid oscines” than the Satinbirds. Long considered birds-of-paradise, their unique characteristics have earned them their own family.
Among them is the striking Crested Satinbird, a result of recent taxonomic lumping!
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Among them is the striking Crested Satinbird, a result of recent taxonomic lumping!
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Crested Satinbird - Cnemophilus macgregorii -
Birds of the World
Species accounts for all the birds of the world.
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February 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Few better illustrate the taxonomic uncertainties of “basal passerid oscines” than the Satinbirds. Long considered birds-of-paradise, their unique characteristics have earned them their own family.
Among them is the striking Crested Satinbird, a result of recent taxonomic lumping!
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Among them is the striking Crested Satinbird, a result of recent taxonomic lumping!
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The mOTUs online database provides web-accessible genomic context to taxonomic profiling of microbial communities
The mOTUs online database provides web-accessible genomic context to taxonomic profiling of microbial communities
The mOTUs online database provides web-accessible genomic context to taxonomic profiling of microbial communities
Abstract. Determining the taxonomic composition (taxonomic profiling) is a fundamental task in studying environmental and host-associated microbial communi
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November 18, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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The mOTUs online database provides web-accessible genomic context to taxonomic profiling of microbial communities
The mOTUs online database provides web-accessible genomic context to taxonomic profiling of microbial communities
I'm currently under taxonomic review
May 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I'm currently under taxonomic review
New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :)
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Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps - Nature Communications
Bees are crucial for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems, yet rigorous estimates of their species’ richness are lacking. This study estimates taxonomic gaps for bees around the world and provides a ...
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February 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :)
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Over the course of taxonomic history, a small but nefarious band of researchers have taken to publishing taxonomic names that their colleagues have regarded as poorly founded, poorly supported by good data, or unneeded and contradicting existing work... 1/n
May 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Over the course of taxonomic history, a small but nefarious band of researchers have taken to publishing taxonomic names that their colleagues have regarded as poorly founded, poorly supported by good data, or unneeded and contradicting existing work... 1/n