Taxonomists

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Apodanthaceae are obligatory endoparasites that only emerge once a year in the form of small flowers that develop into small berries, however taxonomists have not agreed on the exact placement of this family within the Cucurbitales.

Decades ago, taxonomists reclassified S. carlsbergensis (uvarum) as a member of S. cerevisiae, noting that the only distinct difference between the two is metabolic.

Hence, many taxonomists argue in favor of breaking down large genera.

Indeed, taxonomists sometimes used terms without defining them, leading to confusion in the early literature, citation a confusion which persists.

Many disparately related species were subsequently added to the Rhynchocephalia, resulting in what taxonomists call a " wastebasket taxon ". citation Williston proposed the Sphenodontia to include only tuatara and their closest fossil relatives in 1925.

More recently, taxonomists have preferred to split primates into the suborder Strepsirrhini, or wet-nosed primates, consisting of non-tarsier prosimians, and the suborder Haplorhini, or dry-nosed primates, consisting of tarsiers and the simians.

Often taxonomists prefer to use phylogenetic analysis to determine whether a population can be considered a subspecies.

Post-Darwinian The appearance of Charles Darwin 's Origin of Species in 1859 changed the way that taxonomists considered plant classification, incorporating evolutionary information into their schemata.

Relations in the family Magnoliaceae have been puzzling taxonomists for a long time.

Species Prunus cultivar (mature fruits with natural wax bloom) Plum flowers Plum has many species, and taxonomists differ on the count.

Strepsiptera are an enigma to taxonomists.

Taxonomists are also concerned with classification, including its principles, procedures and rules.

Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions of taxa, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time.

Taxonomists who merge Michelia into Magnolia tend to merge these small genera into Magnolia s.l. as well.

The new phyletic approach changed the way that taxonomists considered plant classification, incorporating evolutionary information into their schemata, but this did little to further define the circumscription of Dioscoreaceae.

University of California Press: Berkeley. 2009. p. 13 Increasingly, taxonomists try to avoid naming taxa that are not clades; that is, taxa that are not monophyletic.

What does or does not belong to a family—or whether a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists.