For those who have already spent a bit of time learning the craft of taxonomic nomenclature, this book should help to shed light on some of the practice’s more unusual and quirky developments (why, for example, was a land-dwelling species of mole given the species name aquaticus?). And for those who might not yet have begun to explore this fascinating subject, it should provide a lively and interesting introduction to it.
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