Question

Assume that while on a biology field trip, you find an unusual insect that you and several other biologists are unable to identify. Upon further study you find that no one has reported its existence and you want to classify it. What approach would you take?

Answer 1

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To describe a new specie, it has to be carefully examined in order to determinate that it doesn´t belong to an another specie already described.

Once it has been determinate the novelty of the specie, the researchers write a formal description of it, takes pictures and name it with the new scientific name. Then, the researchers refer it to a scientific magazine.   The editor of the publication will comunicate the new discovery to an experts in that gender.   If the experts agreed, and the publication accept the study, the specimen converts to a new specie.   The process is long and could take years betwen the inicial discovery and the formal acceptation of the new specie

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