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• Five on-site taxonomists identify around two thousand mosquitoes daily.

• Taxonomists have described—that is, have given names to—about 1.9 million species.

• As taxonomists have found to their cost, what looks like a duck may in fact be a goose.

• Today, most taxonomists and birders classify finches as members of the family Fringillidae.

• The order Passeriformes is divided by most taxonomists into two suborders: Tyranni and Passeri.

• Certain intermediate or aberrant families have been removed from or added to the Charadriiformes by various taxonomists.

• A lot of marine ones turned up, though, providing work for an army of 80 taxonomists wielding the latest genetic bar-coding equipment.

• Some taxonomists have estimated that, if all species were known, the total number of species of mites and ticks would be more than 500,000.

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• Consequently, passerine taxonomists have been left with a rather sparse body of morphological information upon which to base a classification.

• Yeti crabs were found to be so evolutionarily distinctive that taxonomists had to create not just a new genus but a whole new family for them.

• Although the hoatzin is treated here with the Galliformes, most taxonomists have assigned it to the family Opisthocomidae (order Cuculiformes).

• In 2016 the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group, an informal group of taxonomists from around the world, published their first taxonomic consensus known as PPG I.

• This helps because two (or, according to some taxonomists, three) other species of these animals remain alive today to provide assistance to the mammoth-revivers.

• Once-unitary species are divided either into multiple species or subspecies, a way for taxonomists to hedge their bets when they are not sure how different two populations are.

• Some taxonomists split this tribe into Naemorhedini (serow, Capricornis species; goral, Naemorhedus species) and true Rupicaprini (chamois, Rupicapra species; mountain goat Oreamnos species).

• Much research is carried out at universities and museums, which house and maintain the collections of bird skins, skeletons, and preserved specimens upon which most taxonomists and anatomists depend.

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• Malacanthidae is formally divided into the subfamilies Malacanthinae and Latilinae; however, some taxonomists consider the Latilinae distinct enough to make up their own separate family (Branchiostegidae).

• Taxonomists recognize four distinct divisions of extant (nonextinct) gymnospermous plants—Coniferophyta, Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, and Gnetophyta—with 88 genera and more than 1,000 species distributed throughout the world.

• Though traditionally considered part of the order Pelecaniformes, frigate birds are grouped by some taxonomists with anhingas (family Anhingidae), boobies and gannets (family Sulidae), and cormorants (family Phalacrocoracidae) in the order Suliformes on the basis of genetic evidence.

• Many taxonomists expand the family Muscicapidae to include the thrushes, warblers, and babblers, treating the Old World flycatchers in two or more subfamilies, Muscicapinae (typical flycatchers) and Monarchinae (monarch flycatchers) and, in some classification systems, Rhipidurinae (fantailed flycatchers).