Intellectualist premise of folk names support their restoration in formal taxonomy

Formal Verification of Petri Nets with Names

Folk knowledge of invertebrates in Central Europe - folk taxonomy, nomenclature, medicinal and other uses, folklore, and nature conservation

BACKGROUND There is scarce information about European folk knowledge of wild invertebrate fauna. We have documented such folk knowledge in three regions, in Romania, Slovakia and Croatia. We provide a list of folk taxa, and discuss folk biological classification and nomenclature, salient features, uses, related proverbs and sayings, and conservation. METHODS We collected data among Hungarian-...

Roses by other names: taxonomy of the Rhizobiaceae.

When Shakespeare wrote (46), “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet,” he implied that phenotypes (scent in this case) take precedence over nomenclature. In popular usage, they usually do. Cartoonists classify politicians by their ears or noses. Scientists use physical characteristics to delimit everything from species (e.g., cranium size in the gen...

Infra-specific folk taxonomy in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) in Ethiopia: folk nomenclature, classification, and criteria

BACKGROUND Sorghum is one of the main staple food crops for the poorest and most food insecure people of the world. As Ethiopia is the centre of origin and diversity for sorghum, the crop has been cultivated for many thousands of years. Hence, indigenous knowledge based sorghum classification and naming has a long tradition. METHODS In order to assess folk taxonomy, various research methods w...

Database Support for Taxonomy

Taxonomists classify the organisms they study in order to refer to, identify and understand them. However, the same organism may at times be classified according to different taxonomic opinions and subsequently have several alternative names or be placed in different taxa. As alternative classifications multiply, biologists are commonly faced with the need to compare and contrast taxonomies in ...