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Trend Curves of the Rate of Species Description in Zoology

George C. SteyskalAuthors Info & Affiliations
Science
20 Aug 1965
Vol 149, Issue 3686
pp. 880-882
DOI: 10.1126/science.149.3686.880
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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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Volume 149 | Issue 3686
20 August 1965

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1965 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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