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BOOK REVIEWS relationship is not indicated. This is a failing but ensures CATALOG OF FISHES the continual employment of taxonomists. The Catalog is William N. Eschmeyer (Ed). 1998. best for verifying names, authors and dates, confirming the California Academy of Sciences, validity of names, determining the genus and family of a San Francisco. ISBN 0-940228-47- species, and as an entry to the taxonomic literature. 5, 3 volumes + CD-ROM. US$170. Listing the accepted names of species followed by The biodiversity crisis is a crisis of synonymies, which would clearly show those that were names, not just of all those valid and those that were not, would have made it easiest undescribed and rapidly vanishing species but even of the for both the non-taxonomist and taxonomist (in groups described ones that lack a coherent database. Bill outside of her/his expertise). The many users of the fish- Eschmeyer’s work attempts to circumvent this crisis for naming system, such as ecologists, ethologists, fishes worldwide in both print and electronic form. He lists physiologists, naturalists, conservationists, and fishery over 10,300 genera and subgenera and approximately biologists just don’t have access to the global literature 53,500 species and subspecies, and he estimates that there needed to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biodiversity Taylor & Francis

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Coad, Brian W.; Hamilton, K. G.A.
Biodiversity , Volume 1 (3): 8 – Aug 1, 2000
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relationship is not indicated. This is a failing but ensures CATALOG OF FISHES the continual employment of taxonomists. The Catalog is William N. Eschmeyer (Ed). 1998. best for verifying names, authors and dates, confirming the California Academy of Sciences, validity of names, determining the genus and family of a San Francisco. ISBN 0-940228-47- species, and as an entry to the taxonomic literature. 5, 3 volumes + CD-ROM. US$170. Listing the accepted names of species followed by The biodiversity crisis is a crisis of synonymies, which would clearly show those that were names, not just of all those valid and those that were not, would have made it easiest undescribed and rapidly vanishing species but even of the for both the non-taxonomist and taxonomist (in groups described ones that lack a coherent database. Bill outside of her/his expertise). The many users of the fish- Eschmeyer’s work attempts to circumvent this crisis for naming system, such as ecologists, ethologists, fishes worldwide in both print and electronic form. He lists physiologists, naturalists, conservationists, and fishery over 10,300 genera and subgenera and approximately biologists just don’t have access to the global literature 53,500 species and subspecies, and he estimates that there needed to

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Published: Aug 1, 2000

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