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Issue: Vol. 2096 No. 1: 11 May. 2009
Type: Editorial
Published: 2009-05-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2096.1.2
Page range: 6–8
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 27

Editorial: Deep-sea taxonomy — a contribution to our knowledge of biodiversity

Abt. DZMB, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Südstrand 44, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Abt. DZMB, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Südstrand 44, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany
General taxonomy biodiversity

Abstract

It is with great pleasure that we finished the compilation of this, the second special volume on deep-sea taxonomy in the year commemorating Darwin (2009). It is exactly 150 years after the publication of Darwin’s most notable work “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”. This remains the basis of our understanding of the history and diversity of life, the latter of which is expressed by the immense number of species inhabiting our planet in past and present.

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