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References

Global biodiversity estimation

• Appeltans, W. et al. (in press, 2012). The magnitude of global marine species diversity. Current biology, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036
• Bacher, S. 2012. Still not enough taxonomists: reply to Joppa et al. Trends in ecology & evolution 27(2): 65–66. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.003
• Bebber, D.P. et al. 2007. Predicting unknown species numbers using discovery curves. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 274(1618): 1651–1658. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0464
• Caley, M.J., Fisher, R. & Mengersen, K. 2014. Global species richness estimates have not converged. Trends in ecology & evolution, doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.02.002
• Carvalho, M.R. de et al. 2013: Does counting species count as taxonomy? On misrepresenting systematics, yet again. Cladistics, doi: 10.1111/cla.12045 reference page 
• Costello, M.J., May, R.M. & Stork, N.E. 2013. Can we name Earth's species before they go extinct? Science 339(6118): 413–416. doi: 10.1126/science.1230318
• Costello, M.J., May, R.M. & Stork, N.E. 2013. Response to comments on “Can We Name Earth’s Species Before They Go Extinct?” Science 341(6143): 237 doi: 10.1126/science.1237381
• Costello, M.J. et al. 2013. Biodiversity data should be published, cited, and peer reviewed. Trends in ecology & evolution 28(8): 454–461. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.002 Reference page. 
• Costello, M.J. et al. 2013. Global coordination and standardisation in marine biodiversity through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and related databases. PLoS ONE 8(1): e51629. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051629 Reference page. 
• Costello, M.J., Wilson, S. & Houlding, B. 2012. Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort. Systematic biology 61(5): 871–883. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syr080
• Costello, M.J., Wilson, S. & Houlding, B. 2013. More taxonomists describing significantly fewer species per unit effort may indicate that most species have been discovered. Systematic biology 62(4): 616–624. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syt024
• Fontaine, B. et al. 2012. New species in the Old World: Europe as a frontier in biodiversity exploration, a test bed for 21st Century taxonomy. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36881. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036881
• Joppa, L.N., Roberts, D.L. & Pimm, S.L. 2011. The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists. Trends in ecology & evolution 26(11): 551–553. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.07.010
• Hamilton, A.J. et al. 2010. Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of tropical arthropod species richness. American naturalist 176(1): 90–95. doi: 10.1086/652998
• Mora, C. et al. 2011. How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean? PLoS Biol 9(8): e1001127. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127
• Samyn, Y. & De Clerck, O. 2012. No name, no game. European journal of taxonomy, (10): 1–3. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2012.10

Other

• Cook, L.G., Edwards, R.D., Crisp, M.D. & Hardy, N.B. 2010. Need morphology always be required for new species descriptions? Invertebrate systematics 24: 322–326. doi: 10.1071/IS10011
• Costello, M.J. et al. 2010. A census of marine biodiversity knowledge, resources, and future challenges. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12110. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012110
• David, J. et al. 2012. Biological nomenclature terms for facilitating communication in the naming of organisms. ZooKeys 192: 67–72. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.192.3347
• Fitzhugh, K. 2009. Species as explanatory hypotheses: refinements and implications. Acta biotheoretica 57: 201–248. doi: 10.1007/s10441-009-9071-3
• Freudenstein, J.V. 1998. Paraphyly, ancestors, and classification: a response to Sosef and Brummitt. Taxon 47: 95–104. JSTOR
• Funk, D.J. & Omland, K.E. 2003. Species-level paraphyly and polyphyly: frequency, causes, and consequences, with insights from animal mitochondrial DNA. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics 34: 397–423. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.34.011802.132421
• Goldstein, P.Z. & DeSalle, R. 2000. Phylogenetic species, nested hierarchies, and character fixation. Cladistics 16: 364–384. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2000.tb00356.x
• Heads, M. 2012. Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 9780520271968. Preview
• Jones, A.C., White, R.J. & Orme, E.R. 2011. Identifying and relating biological concepts in the Catalogue of Life. Journal of biomedical semantics 2(1): 7. doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-2-7
• Gordon DP (2009). Towards a management hierarchy (classification) for the Catalogue of Life: Draft Discussion Document. In Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2009 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., eds). CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Page, R.D.M. 2010: Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia of life. Organisms diversity & evolution 10: 343–349. doi: 10.1007/s13127-010-0028-9
• Patterson, D.J. et al. 2014: Scientific names of organisms: attribution, rights, and licensing. BMC research notes, 7: 79. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-79 reference page 
• Rieppel, O. 2010. Species monophyly. Journal of zoological systematics and evolutionary research 48: 1–8. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00545.x
• Wägele, H. et al. 2011. The taxonomist – an endangered race. A practical proposal for its survival. Frontiers in zoology 8: 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-9994-8-25
• Witteveen, J. 2014. Naming and contingency: the type method of biological taxonomy. Biology & philosophy, doi: 10.1007/s10539-014-9459-6

Links

• IRMNG
• Paleobiology Database

Hesperia (Sloperia)

You know the butterfly Hesperia (Sloperia) proto (Ochsenheimer – 1808)? Help me if you can please, thanks --Marica Massaro (talk) 19:32, 22 August 2016 (UTC).

This butterfly is Muschampia proto PeterR (talk) 07:41, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Page inconsistence (Language)

When I click on Wikispecies in other languages -> Deutsch, I see the German version of this page, which is correct. Clicking on Deutsch in the left column of In Wikipedia sould give me the same result. But there I get the German Wikipedia main page instead – and that is not correct. 2001:A61:304C:7E01:80F1:E05E:F644:3246 16:21, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

That link is supposed to be a link to the Wikipedia main page, and if you click on the "Deutsch" link you are supposed to reach the main page of the German Wikipedia language version. However, since the menu headline says "In Wikipedia" one can argue that users may expect to instead reach the Wikipedia page regarding Wikispecies, rather than the main page. Perhaps we should change the headline to simply say "Wikipedia"? –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 07:32, 18 October 2016 (UTC).

I don't get the reason why this should be different to all other WP-articles. In ANY WP-topic clicking on the left column means to go to the same article in the clicked language (if there is one in this language). So why should anyone mean, there could be a better mechanism here doing other? (this would be like producing a media player, where a button is marked exactly like the play-button in any other media playing system, but don't starting the playing HERE). It is ridiculous to assume that anyone needs a link to Wikipedia in his own language - since if anyone uses Wikipedia, he will knew how to get there without many thinking. But if i'm anywhere within a specific topic - possibly got there by hopping link after link after link etc., then it is obviously a possible need to get the same page in another language. But any link to the WP main page is nothing else but useless decoration. 2001:A61:3068:8F01:58BD:CE3D:39BF:4AAF 13:54, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

I agree. However, it turns out changing the left menu items is not trivial, even for a Wikispecies bureaucrat such as myself. I'll look in to it though. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 15:28, 19 October 2016 (UTC).

Endangered species of the month

Template:Especies-2017-11 has not been created. Are there any plans to create new templates for endangered species of the month? For now, the template could redirect to either Template:Especies-2017-01 or Template:Especies-2017-05. Thanks, Korg (talk) 22:02, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

I've now created the {{Especies-2017-11}} template. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 20:18, 3 November 2017 (UTC).

Thank you! Korg (talk) 09:27, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Broken link to ZooKeys

In section Explore Wikispecies link to ZooKeys is broken. Also potential link to PhytoKeys is missing. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrpalermo (talk • contribs) 21:29, 24 November 2017‎.

@Mrpalermo: Fixed; thank you - though that does seem to be rather stale news, and needs to be updated, if not removed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:41, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Especies-* templates (again)

The main page transcludes {{Especies-2018-08}}, which doesn't exist, and I'm apparently not allowed to create it (as a redirect to {{Especies-2017-11}} – the last one that was created). Shouldn't this be done differently, since it's apparently a recurring issue? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 01:33, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

@AlanM1: I've now created the {{Especies-2018-08}} template. The Wikispecies Main Page and transcluded templates has been write protected a long time, and can only be edited by our administrators and bureaucrats. This is unfortunate but has been deemed necessary by the community in order to counter frequently recurring vandalism to the page. Protecting the Main Page (and transcluded pages) is standard procedure on almost all of the Wikimedia sister projects, including all language versions of Wikipedia, Commons, Wiktionary, and Meta-Wiki. To my knowledge the only exception is Wikidata where not only admins and 'crats are allowed to edit the Main Page, but also members of the autoconfirmed user group. Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 20:46, 9 August 2018 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: Thanks. I'm aware of the need for protection. What I meant was that the particular issue (the species of the month) could be done differently. How about transcluding {{Especies of the month}} and making that page a redirect to whatever the latest template is (e.g. {{Especies-2018-08}}. When a new template for a month is created, the user could also edit {{Especies of the month}} to point to it. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 01:29, 11 August 2018 (UTC)