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IT is satisfactory to be able to report that the publication of the “Nomenclator Zoologicus”, an announcement respecting which was made in NATURE of February 25, 1939, p. 326, has now been completed. Moreover, in spite of the inevitable difficulties that have arisen out of the conditions under which the later volumes have been produced, the final one has appeared nearly two months in advance of schedule. The work, which covers the literature from 1758 to the end of 1935, is contained in four volumes, the last of which includes a supplementary list of addenda and corrigenda. It contains in all about 227,000 entries, including cross-references, though it is probable that these do not represent more than about 190,000 genera or subgenera treated as distinct by present-day systematists. Of these, the Arthropoda represent more than 70 per cent of the whole, the Insecta alone representing 50 per cent.
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The New “Nomenclator Zoologicus”. Nature 146, 681 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146681c0
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