The Current Concepts of Fish Systematics
摘要
Abstract
The war between the splitter taxonomists and the gathering taxonomists has been waged since the time of Linnaeus. In recent years, the mass fascination with taxonomy has become a fashionable trend. Geneticists, biochemists, and molecular scientists are now engaged in taxonomy, which introduces different interpretations at the levels of both micro- and macro-mathematics. This is due to the fact that everyone comes to taxonomy with their own subjective concepts of the species, genus, and family. This gives rise to many different taxonomic systems and even the opinion that taxonomy ceases to be a science and becomes a subjective point of view. Measures are proposed to eliminate this phenomenon.