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Science 21 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5452, p. 421
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5452.421
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TAXONOMY:
Researchers Cash In on Personalized Species Names

Sabine Steghaus-Kovac

In return for a donation to biodiversity research, you can now have a previously unknown species named after you and recorded in the scientific literature for perpetuity. The scheme, dubbed BIOPAT, was registered last week as a nonprofit organization in Germany. Its founders hope it will become a valuable source of funding for the unglamorous fields of systematics and taxonomy, as well as supporting conservation in the new species' home countries.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)