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IT is a common, but none the less mistaken, conception that the be-all and end-all of the systematist is the discovery of new species. In reality, the discovery of well-known species in remote parts of the world has a far greater fascination and is infinitely more important. It is perhaps no exaggeration to state that the world-wide distribution of common species of animals and plants is the basis of one of the most fundamental conceptions of the whole of the science of biology, since on it rests almost our only data for observing the influence of environment.
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LOWNDES, A. Eurytemora thompsoni, A. Willey: A New European Record. Nature 128, 967 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128967b0
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