ISBN10: 0231068247, ISBN13: 9780231068246, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover Hardcover, xx + 518 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright interior with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Bent tips of page corners, short corner creases. Boards show fingermarks, non-sticky residue of removed sticker, gentle scratches, rubbing; tips of upper corners are bent and scuffed. No dust jacket. -- Contents: I. Introduction 1 Introduction [Describing the Living World; Why Is Species Description Necessary; How New Species Are Described; Scope & Organization of This Book; Pleasures of Systematics; Sources] 2 Biological Nomenclature [Humans as Taxonomists; Biological Nomenclature; Folk Taxonomy; Binomial Nomenclature; Development of Codes of Nomenclature; Current Codes; Future of the Codes]; II. Recognizing Species 3 Species & Their Discovery [Species Concepts; Processes Affecting Speciation; Taxonomic Characters; Examples of Ways in Which Biologists Have Discovered New Species] 4 Establishing Identity: Literature Search [Mistakes & Bad Examples; Establishing Identity; Where to Find & How to Read the Taxonomic Literature; Species Descriptions; Searching on the Internet] 5 Establishing Identity: Using Museum Collections [Collections, Museums, Herbaria; Locating & Borrowing Material; Type Material; Visiting Collections: What to Expect & How to Behave; Cooperation with Systematists]; III. Writing Species Descriptions 6 ...
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