Taxonomist in a sentence as a noun

There are plenty of taxonomist that want me dead.

I'm sure taxonomists would agree that a turtle on land is an animal whereas a turtle in the sea with fin type legs is a fish.

I'm sure a proper taxonomist would be able to speak more authoritatively, but I rather doubt it.

Based on that, a Linnaean taxonomist might classify them as separate species within a single genus.

It was first published over a dozen years ago, so it will have dated a bit. In the first chapter the author explains objects using the usual taxonomist analogy, but also explains it in terms of the concept of scope.

> There is reasonable agreement among taxonomists that a species should represent a distinct evolutionary lineage.

'Species' are often created or dismissed arbitrarily, according to the individual taxonomist's adherence to one of at least 30 definitions [2].

There are three primary camps in systematics; cladists, pheneticists, and evolutionary taxonomists.

The ultimate goal of taxonomists is to assist in communicating about organisms via well-informed classification schemes.

Taxonomist definitions

noun

a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior

See also: taxonomer systematist