Taxonomy (biology) new common (or apomorphic) traits. However, certain phenetic methods, such as neighbor joining, have found their way into cladistics, as a reasonable approximation of phylogeny when more advanced methods (such as Bayesian inference) are too computationally expensive. Modern taxonomy uses database technologies to search and catalogue classifications and their documentation. While there is no commonly used database, there are comprehensive databases such as the "Catalogue of Life", which attempts to list every documented species. The catalogue listed 1.64 million species for all kingdoms as of April 2016, claiming coverage of more than three quarters of the estimated species known to
Torpedo scad which is one of the thirty genera in the family Carangidae, a group of perciform fishes in the suborder Percoidei. The species was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus, a famed Swedish naturalist who is widely considered the father of modern taxonomy. The specimen described by Linnaeus was erroneously described as being from "America", and no holotype is known for the species. Ronald Frick designated a neotype for the species in 1999, however this was rejected as it failed to satisfy ICZN regulations. Linnaeus named the species "Scomber cordyla", placing the fish in the true mackerel genus, which was a