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Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

. 2018 Mar ; 16 (3) : e2005075. [epub] 20180314

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Abteilung Morphologie und Systematik der Tiere und Zoologisches Museum Universität Göttingen Göttingen Germany

Agricultural Research Council Plant Protection Research Institute South African National Collection of Insects Queenswood South Africa

Allwetterzoo Münster Münster Germany

Australian National Herbarium Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research CSIRO National Research Collections Australia Australian Capital Territory Australia

Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO National Research Collections Australia Australian Capital Territory Australia

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Hawai'i United States of America

Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Kunigami District Okinawa Prefecture Japan

Biodiversity Institute University of Kansas Kansas United States of America

Bioveyda Biodiversity Inventories and Research California United States of America

Botanische Staatssammlung München and SNSB IT Center Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns München Germany

Canadian National Collection of Insects Arachnids and Nematodes Agriculture and Agri Food Canada Ontario Canada

Centre for Agricultural Research Hungarian Academy of Sciences Martonvásár Hungary

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Edinburgh Research Station Scotland United Kingdom

Centro de Ciências Agrárias Ambientais e Biológicas Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia Bahia Brazil

Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático e Ingeniería en Biodiversidad y Recursos Genéticos Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica Quito Ecuador

Chelonian Research Foundation Massachusetts United States of America

Chelonian Research Institute Oviedo Florida United States of America

CITES Scientific Authority Finnish Museum of Natural History University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland

College of Medicine Biology and Environment Research School of Biology Australian National University Australian Capital Territory Australia

Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology Department Royal Botanic Gardens Kew London United Kingdom

Denver Botanic Gardens Denver Colorado United States of America

Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Madrid Spain

Departamento de Biologia Animal Instituto de Biologia Universidade Estadual de Campinas São Paulo Brazil

Departamento de Biología Universidad de Los Andes Mérida Venezuela

Departamento de Zoologia Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil

Departamento de Zoologia Universidade de Brasília Distrito Federal Brazil

Departamento de Zoologia Universidade Federal do Paraná Paraná Brazil

Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm Sweden

Department of Biological Sciences National University of Singapore Singapore

Department of Biological Sciences Texas Tech University Texas United States of America

Department of Biological Sciences University of Toronto Scarborough Ontario Canada

Department of Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Biology Portland State University Oregon United States of America

Department of Biology Earlham College Indiana United States of America

Department of Biology Hofstra University New York United States of America

Department of Biology Pittsburg State University Kansas United States of America

Department of Biology University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark

Department of Biology University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawai'i United States of America

Department of Biology University of Washington Seattle Washington United States of America

Department of Biology Victor Valley College Victorville California United States of America

Department of Biology Villanova University Pennsylvania United States of America

Department of Biosciences University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland

Department of Biosciences Viikki Plant Science Centre Helsinki Finland

Department of Botany Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Washington DC United States of America

Department of Botany Szent István University Budapest Hungary

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ehime University Matsuyama Japan

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Johns Hopkins University Maryland United States of America

Department of Earth Sciences Natural History Museum London United Kingdom

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas Kansas United States of America

Department of Entomology Entomology Research Museum University of California Riverside California United States of America

Department of Entomology Kerala Agricultural University Kerala India

Department of Environmental Science and Policy George Mason University Virginia United States of America

Department of Environmental Science and Technology University of Maryland Maryland United States of America

Department of Environmental Sciences University of Basel Basel Switzerland

Department of Genetics and Evolution University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland

Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State Arthropod Collection Oregon State University Oregon United States of America

Department of Life Sciences Natural History Museum London United Kingdom

Department of Marine Invertebrates Australian Museum New South Wales Australia

Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology Norman Oklahoma United States of America

Department of Natural Sciences Gardner Webb University North Carolina United States of America

Department of Plant Anatomy Institute of Biology Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Hungary

Department of Plant Biology Ecology and Evolution and Herbarium Oklahoma State University Oklahoma United States of America

Department of Plant Medicine Chungbuk National University Cheongju Korea

Department of Plant Science and Biotechnology University of Pannonia Keszthely Hungary

Department of Science Education Hiroshima University Higashihiroshima Japan

Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany Universität Wien Wien Austria

Department of Terrestrial Zoology Western Australian Museum Western Australia Australia

Department of Vertebrate Zoology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington DC United States of America

Department of Zoology Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver Colorado United States of America

Department of Zoology Eszterházy Károly University Eger Hungary

Department of Zoology Faculty of Science Charles University Prague Czech Republic

Department of Zoology Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest Hungary

Department of Zoology Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Verona Verona Italy

Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologia 'Charles Darwin' Sapienza Università di Roma Rome Italy

Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi Università di Torino Torino Italy

Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History New York United States of America

Environmental Management School of Applied and Biomedical Science Federation University Victoria Australia

Essig Museum of Entomology University of California Berkeley Berkeley California United States of America

Faculty of Biology Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași Iași Romania

Finnish Museum of Natural History University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland

Fiocruz Mata Atlântica Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Rio de Janeiro Brazil

FishBase Department of Zoology Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm Sweden

FishBase Information and Research Group IRRI Campus Los Baños Laguna Philippines

Fragile Inheritance Natural History Ontario Canada

General Committee for Nomenclature [for algae fungi and plants] Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust New South Wales Australia

Global Biodiversity Information Facility Copenhagen Denmark

Global Wildlife Conservation Texas United States of America

Green Plant Herbarium Department of Natural History Royal Ontario Museum Toronto Ontario Canada

H W Manter Laboratory of Parasitology University of Nebraska Lincoln Lincoln Nebraska United States of America

Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology University of Hawai'i Hawai'i United States of America

Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University Penrith New South Wales Australia

Henares 16 Velilla de San Antonio Madrid Spain

Herbarium School of Biological Sciences University of Reading Reading United Kingdom

Identification and Naming Department Royal Botanic Gardens Kew London United Kingdom

Illinois Natural History Survey Illinois United States of America

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona Spain

Institut de Systématique Evolution Biodiversité Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Sorbonne Universités Paris France

Institute of Biodiversity Science and Sustainability California Academy of Sciences San Francisco California United States of America

Institute of Marine Science University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand

Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences Chaoyang District P R China

Instituto de Ambiente de Montaña y Regiones Áridas Universidad Nacional de Chilecito La Rioja Argentina

Instituto de Botânica São Paulo Brazil

Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Austral de Chile Valdivia Chile

Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Austral de Chile Valdivia Chile

Integrated Taxonomic Information System National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington DC United States of America

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Singapore

International Committee on Bionomenclature Braunschweig Germany

Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante sez di Torino CNR Torino Italy

Judicial Commission on Prokaryote Nomenclature London United Kingdom

Kansas Biological Survey and the Biodiversity Institute University of Kansas Kansas United States of America

Kazan Federal University Kremlyovskaya Russia

Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas Instituto Butantan São Paulo SP Brazil

Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul Mato Grosso do Sul Brazil

Laboratório de Ictiologia Departamento de Zoologia IBB UNESP Campus de Botucatu Botucatu São Paulo Brazil

Laboratorio de Morfología Animal Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo Hidalgo México

Laboratorio de Sistemática y Biología Comparada de Insectos Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá Colombia

Landcare Research Auckland New Zealand

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum National University of Singapore Singapore

Macleay Museum University of Sydney New South Wales Australia

Martha N and John C Moser Chair in Arthropod Systematics and Biological Diversity The Ohio State University Ohio United States of America

Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Lab School of Biological Sciences Bangor University Bangor United Kingdom

Montana Entomology Collection Montana State University Montana United States of America

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia' Buenos Aires Argentina

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Madrid Spain

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil

Museu Nacional da História Natural e da Ciência Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa Portugal

Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz Institut für Evolutions und Biodiversitätsforschung Berlin Germany

National Focal Point to the Convention on Biological Diversity Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Brussels Belgium

National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington DC United States of America

National Parks Board Singapore Botanic Gardens Singapore

Natural History Laboratory Faculty of Science Ibaraki University Mito Japan

Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden University of Tartu Tartu Estonia

Natural History Museum of Denmark Copenhagen Denmark

Natural History Museum of Geneva Geneva Switzerland

Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden the Netherlands

Nees Institut für Biodiversität der Pflanzen Universität Bonn Bonn Germany

Nomenclature Specialist CITES Animals Committee; Turtle Conservancy New York United States of America

NTNU University Museum Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway

Ornithological Nomenclature Expert

Permanent ICN Nomenclature Committee for Fungi International Mycological Association

Plant Gateway Ltd Yorkshire United Kingdom

Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch California Department of Food and Agriculture California United States of America

Plant Protection Institute Centre for Agricultural Research Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest Hungary

Potato Research Center Georgikon Faculty University of Pannonia Keszthely Hungary

PPG Biodiversidade Animal Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Rio Grande do Sul Brazil

PPG Zoologia Departamento de Zoologia Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Minas Gerais Brazil

Research School of Earth Sciences Australian National University Australian Capital Territory Australia

Robert Bebb Herbarium University of Oklahoma Oklahoma Biological Survey Norman Oklahoma United States of America

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Brussels Belgium

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Scotland United Kingdom

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew London United Kingdom

School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales New South Wales Australia

School of Biological Sciences and Environment Institute University of Adelaide South Australia Australia

School of Biological Sciences University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand

School of Environmental Sciences University of Guelph Ontario Canada

School of Life Sciences Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center Hasbrouck Insect Collection Arizona State University Arizona United States of America

School of Life Sciences University of KwaZulu Natal Scottsville South Africa

Sciences Department Museums Victoria Victoria Australia

Section of Mollusks Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pennsylvania United States of America

Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden Germany

Sezione di Zoologia degli Invertebrati e Idrobiologia MUSE Museo delle Scienze di Trento Trento Italy

Smithsonian Marine Station Florida United States of America

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart Stuttgart Germany

The Kyoto University Museum Kyoto University Kyoto Japan

Turtle Conservancy New York United States of America

UNC Herbarium North Carolina Botanical Garden University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina United States of America

Unité Mixte de Recherche Peuplements Végétaux et Bioaggresseurs en Milieu Tropical Université de La Réunion Ile de La Réunion France

Universidad de Atacama Copiapó Chile and Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile

Universidade Estadual Paulista Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias Jaboticabal Departamento de Biologia Aplicada à Agropecuária São Paulo Brazil

University of Michigan Herbarium EEB Ann Arbor Michigan United States of America

University of Sydney New South Wales Australia

Zoological Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow Russia

Zoologische Staatssammlung München Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns München Germany

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