Taxonomists renamed it Apatosaurus in 1903 when it was discovered that two different names referred to the same dinosaur.
1903年，当发现有两个不同的名字指代这一恐龙时，分类学家们将它重新命名为Apatosaurus。
New methods developed in genetic research have led taxonomists to revise their views on the evolutionary relationships between many species.
遗传研究中出现的新方法使分类学家修正了他们对许多物种间进化关系的看法。
Taxonomists classify the samples of different planets and label them.
植物分类学家将不同的植物样本归类并贴上标签。
When the idea was proposed, it was expected to be a boon to taxonomists trying to name the world's millions of species.
此想法一经提出，它就有助于分类学者为数百万物种指名道姓。
Dr Polaszek believes the overall goal of the ICZN is stability, not just for taxonomists but for science and the broader public.
Polaszek博士认为委员会的首要职责是稳定大局，不仅要稳住分类学家们，同时也要稳住科学界和广大的公众。
Taxonomists do not always get it right first time, of course, and what looked like one species may rightly later be seen as two.
当然，物种分类学不可能一步到位，以前曾被归为是同一物种的生物，按新的定义就有可能就被修正2个物种。
Eventually I want farmers to be able to take pictures with phones and send them to bee taxonomists on the other side of the world.
我希望农民能够用他们手中的电话拍下蜜蜂的照片，然后将其发送给其他地区的蜜蜂分类学家。
Taxonomists at work in museums of natural history still find as yet unnamed specimens among the collections of preserved specimens.
而在自然历史博物馆里，分类学家至今还能从保存的标本里发现尚未命名的标本。
Now, taxonomists argue that since birds are descended from dinosaurs they should be classified merely as a subgroup of the Dinosauria.
现在，分类学家认为，既然已经发现鸟类是恐龙的后代，那么它们应当被划分为仅仅是恐龙的一个子群。
Besides the money, another huge obstacle to a complete understanding of the animal kingdom is a global shortage of taxonomists, experts say.
一些专家还指出，除了这笔钱之外，另一个让科学家们不能完全了解动物王国的巨大障碍就是分类学家在全球范围内都十分紧缺。
If these species are not defined by interfertility, which obviously they are not, are they real, or just the convenient conventions of taxonomists?
如果这些物种并不是互交可孕的，显然它们不是的，那么它们真的或仅仅是分类学者们便利的惯例吗？
Though taxonomists have been cataloguing plants and animals for more than 250 years, they still have no exact answer to the question, "How many species are on Earth?"
分类学家对动植物的分类工作进行了250多年，但是，他们仍然不能准确地回答“地球上的生物有多少种？”这一问题。
The problem for the world’s favourite fly is that it is reasonably clear to taxonomists that the genus Drosophila properly refers to a group of flies that do not include melanogaster.
对于这个臭名昭著的苍蝇的分类问题，分类学家们有理由相信Drosophila这个属类不应该包括melanogaster这个种类的苍蝇。
If it is to reflect its evolutionary origins (as taxonomists would prefer) the genus needs to be divided up into many more smaller genera in which the species have similar characteristics.
如果一个物种是从进化源头一步步进化过来的(分类学家们这么认为)，总属分化出来的各个分属里的物种应当具有相同的特征。
Many patient taxonomists from several European countries and America then sieved through litres of muddy gravel with microscopes and pairs of tweezers to see what treasures had been captured.
来自欧洲几个国家和美国的许多分类学家耐心地用显微镜和镊子对数以升计、沾满烂泥的沙砾进行筛分，来看看什么样的宝贝被铲了上来。
Typically, taxonomists look at existing databases, Web sites, organizational charts, product lines, other legacy databases, term lists, and product documentation to tease out existing categories.
通常情况下，分类法专家会研究现有的数据库、Web站点、组织图表、产品线、其他遗留数据库、词汇列表和产品文档，从而了解现有的分类。
Typically, taxonomists look at existing databases, Web sites, organizational charts, product lines, other legacy databases, term lists, and product documentation to tease out existing categories.
通常情况下，分类法专家会研究现有的数据库、Web站点、组织图表、产品线、其他遗留数据库、词汇列表和产品文档，从而了解现有的分类。
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