Taxonomy and Systematics

Our taxonomic research is devoted to the identification, description, and nomenclature of living organisms, following established codes and proposing new codes. Systematics broadens this framework by reconstructing the evolutionary history of species and arranging them into natural hierarchical groups that reflect patterns of common ancestry. This integrative discipline employs data from genetics, morphology, ecology, and behavior to establish robust phylogenetic hypotheses and to refine our understanding of variability of organisms at multiple spatial and temporal scales.