caspar bauhin was the father of binomial nomenclature.
caspar bauhin was the father of binomial nomenclature.
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caspar bauhin
the bauhins, in particular caspar bauhin (1560–1624), took some important steps towards the binomial system, by pruning the latin descriptions, in many cases to two words. the adoption by biologists of a system of strictly binomial nomenclature is due to swedish botanist and physician carl von linné, more commonly known by his latinized name carl linnaeus (1707–1778). it was in his 1753 "species plantarum" that he first began consistently using a one-word "trivial name" together with a generic name in a system of binomial nomenclature. this trivial name is what is now known as a specific epithet ("icnafp") or specific name ("iczn"). the bauhins' genus names were retained in many of these, but the descriptive part was reduced to a single word.
binomial nomenclature
nomenclature (including binomial nomenclature) is not the same as classification, although the two are related. classification is the ordering of items into groups based on similarities or differences; in biological classification, species are one of the kinds of item to be classified. in principle, the names given to species could be completely independent of their classification. this is not the case for binomial names, since the first part of a binomial is the name of the genus into which the species is placed. above the rank of genus, binomial nomenclature and classification are partly independent; for example, a species retains its binomial name if it is moved from one family to another or from one order to another, unless it better fits a different genus in the same or different family, or it is split from its old genus and placed in a newly created genus. the independence is only partial since the names of families and other higher taxa are usually based on genera.
binomial nomenclature