Methods and principles of systematic zoology
By: [by] Ernst Mayr, E. Gorton Linsley [and] Robert L. Usinger.
Series: McGraw-Hill publications in the zoological sciences
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Animals -- Classification.; Animals -- Nomenclature.
Genres: Classification.; Nomenclature.
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Table of contents: title: Preface; label: PART 1
title: TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTS; label: 1
title: Taxonomy, its History and Functions
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: The Species and the Infraspecific Categories
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: Classification and the Higher Categories
pagenum: 40; label: PART 2
title: TAXONOMIC PROCEDURE; label: 4
title: Collecting and Collections
pagenum: 63; label: 5
title: Identification and Taxonomic Discrimination
pagenum: 72; label: 6
title: Taxonomic Characters
pagenum: 105; label: 7
title: Quantitative Methods of Analysis
pagenum: 125; label: 8
title: Presentation of Findings
pagenum: 155; label: 9
title: Preparation of Taxonomic Papers
pagenum: 178; label: PART 3
title: ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE; label: 10
title: Historical and Philosophical Basis of Nomenclature
pagenum: 201; label: 11
title: The Principle of Priority
pagenum: 212; label: 12
title: The Type Method and Its Significance
pagenum: 236; label: 13
title: Specific and Infraspecific Names
pagenum: 246; label: 14
title: Generic Names
pagenum: 261; label: 15
title: Family Names
pagenum: 271; label: 16
title: Names of Orders, Classes, and Phyla
pagenum: 276; label: 17
title: Ethics in Taxonomy
pagenum: 279; label: Bibliography
title: 285; label: Glossary
title: 301; label: Index
title: 317