Swinhoe's white-eye
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Swinhoe's white-eye is a bird species in the white-eye family, Zosteropidae. It is found in eastern China, Taiwan, north Vietnam, the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. Additionally, population
Resting Zosterops japonicus
Binomial nomenclature
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In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature, also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammati
Swinhoe's white-eye
…population has been expanding rapidly. Swinhoe's white-eye was formally described in 1861 by the English naturalist Robert Swinhoe, who assigned it the binomial name Zosterops simplex. The genus Zosterops had been introduced by the naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827. The genus name combines the…
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Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, invented the modern system of binomial nomenclature.
Part of page 1179 of volume 2 of the 1st edition of Linnaeus’s Species Plantarum, describing mushroom species Phallus impudicus. The body text is using polynomial nomenclature, with the trivial name attached in the margin.