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Science 20 August 1965:
Vol. 149. no. 3686, pp. 880 - 882
DOI: 10.1126/science.149.3686.880
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Trend Curves of the Rate of Species Description in Zoology

George C. Steyskal 1

1 Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Trend charts of approximately 0.4 percent of the animal kingdom indicate that the describing and naming of species, "alpha taxonomy," is far from completed.


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