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Published: 2021-10-18
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Taxonomy needs rigor: a response to Roberts’ (2020)

Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus Universitário 1, 58051-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus Universitário 1, 58051-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
Laboratório de Pesquisas Paleontológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Campus da Universidade Federal do Acre, 69917-400, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander Von Humboldt, Cl. 28a #15-09 Bogotá, DC 111311, Colombia
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