The Chilean taxonomic community is reduced, with the largest fraction of taxonomists devoted to well known groups, such as vertebrates. Some invertebrates and plant taxa have no Chilean taxonomist working on them, all ...

In this article, we analyze the toponymic taxonomies of Dick (1992) as terminological units of a field of knowledge, from linguistic (formal and semantic structure) and functional points of view, both under a descriptive ...

Several species of the genus Rhipsalis (Cactaceae) are extremely important as ornamentals and are endangered in their natural habitat. However, only a few studies have addressed its taxonomy, morphology (including anatomy), ...

This paper proposes a new methodology to extract biometric features of plant leaf structures. Combining computer vision techniques and plant taxonomy protocols, these methods are capable of identifying plant species. The ...

During the study of Heliotropium L. genus in the project Flora Fanerogâmica do Estado de São Paulo, it was verified that Heliotropium fruticosum L. presents a new geographical occurrence in Southeast of Brazil. Description, ...

Curriculum Nereida Mestre Novoa, Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Cuba, especialidad, taxonomía de Coccoidea. Curriculum Nereida Mestre Novoa, Institute of Ecology and Systematics, Cuba, specialty, taxonomy of Coccoidea.

Epyris rotundus sp. nov. and Epyris cochlear sp. nov., from southern Brazil, are described and illustrated. Epyris longus Corrêa & Azevedo, 2002, E. argentinicus Evans, 1969, E. angustatus Evans, 1969, E. perpolitus Evans, ...