different between chalcidology vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

chalcid +? -ology

Noun

chalcidology (uncountable)

1. The study of chalcid wasps.
   • 1997 — Gibson et al. Annotated Keys to the Genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) (NRC Research Press)

     The major milestone in Nearctic chalcidology during the latter half of the 20th century is perhaps the catalog by Peck

   • 1999 — Systematic Entomolgy (1999) 24, 301-304

     The publication of this CD-ROM catalogue marks an important step in the history of chalcidology.

   • 2005 — Simon van Noort and Jean-Yves Rasplus Revision of the Papua New Guinean fig wasp genus Robertsia Bou?ek (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Sycoecinae)

     This paper is dedicated to the doyen of chalcidology, Zdenek Bou?ek, in the year of his 81st birthday.

Further reading

• Chalcid wasps on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chalcidoidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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