Systema Naturae

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Systema Naturae is Carl Linnaeus’s landmark 18th-century work that established the modern hierarchical system for classifying and naming organisms.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf book edition
book edition
book edition
scientific book
taxonomic work
author Carl Linnaeus
cataloguedApproximateSpeciesCountInLaterEditions over 4,000 animal species
over 7,000 plant species
countryOfOrigin Sweden
field biology
systematics
taxonomy
firstPublicationYear 1735
fullLatinTitle Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis
hasAbbreviation Syst. Nat.
hasAlternativeTitle Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae
hasEdition Systema Naturae, 10th edition
Systema Naturae, 12th edition
Systema Naturae, 1st edition
hasTaxonomicRank classis
genus
ordo
regnum
species
includesKingdom Animalia
Mineralia
Plantae
influenced International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
modern biological classification
introducedConcept binomial nomenclature for species
hierarchical ranks such as class, order, genus, species
language Latin
notableFor providing a comprehensive catalog of known species of its time
standardizing species names in Latin
originalLanguage Latin
placeOfFirstPublication Leiden NERFINISHED
publicationCentury 18th century
publicationYear 1735
1758
publicationYears 1766–1768
publisherOfFirstEdition Theodor Haak
significance starting point for zoological nomenclature
subject binomial nomenclature
classification of living organisms
hierarchical taxonomy
volumeCount 2
3

Referenced by (15)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Systema Naturae ("Systema Naturae, 1st edition")
Systema Naturae ("Systema Naturae, 10th edition")
Systema Naturae ("Systema Naturae, 12th edition")
hasEdition
Fragaria ("Linnaean taxonomy")
describedIn
Systema Naturae ("Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis")
fullLatinTitle
Systema Naturae ("Syst. Nat.")
hasAbbreviation
Systema Naturae ("Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae")
hasAlternativeTitle
Carl Linnaeus
hasWork
Critica Botanica ("Linnaean taxonomy")
influenced
Genera Plantarum ("Linnaean taxonomy")
isPartOf
Carl Linnaeus
knownFor
Critica Botanica ("Linnaeus’s early taxonomic works")
partOf
Species Plantarum ("Systema Naturae (early editions)")
precededBy
Critica Botanica
relatedWork
Louis Pierre Vieillot ("Linnaean system")
usedTaxonomicSystem

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