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Image: Robert Ricker, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The lingua franca of taxonomy

Posted on February 24th, 2011 by Nigel Chaffey

Image: Robert Ricker, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Encouraging students to face their fears and take up the challenge of confronting scientific names (no longer should we call them Latin names because, although Latinized, the names themselves come from a wide variety of languages) is not easy – as anyone who has struggled with [...]