The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

ENGEL, MICHAEL S; CERÍACO, LUIS M P; DANIEL, GIMO M; DELLAPÉ, PABLO M; LÖBL, IVAN; MARINOV, MILEN; REIS, ROBERTO E; YOUNG, MARK T; DUBOIS, ALAIN; AGARWAL, ISHAN; LEHMANN A., PABLO; ALVARADO, MABEL; ALVAREZ, NADIR; ANDREONE, FRANCO; ARAUJO-VIEIRA, KATYUSCIA; ASCHER, JOHN S; BAÊTA, DÉLIO; BALDO, DIEGO; BANDEIRA, SUZANA A; BARDEN, PHILLIP; BARRASSO, DIEGO A; BENDIFALLAH, LEILA; BOCKMANN, FLÁVIO A; BÖHME, WOLFGANG; BORKENT, ART; BRANDÃO, CARLOS R F; BUSACK, STEPHEN D; BYBEE, SETH M; CHANNING, ALAN; CHATZIMANOLIS, STYLIANOS; CHRISTENHUSZ, MAARTEN J M; CRISCI, JORGE V; D?ELÍA, GUILLERMO; DA COSTA, LUIS M; DAVIS, STEVEN R; DE LUCENA, CARLOS ALBERTO S; DEUVE, THIERRY; FERNANDES ELIZALDE, SARA; FAIVOVICH, JULIÁN; FAROOQ, HARITH; FERGUSON, ADAM W; GIPPOLITI, SPARTACO; GONÇALVES, FRANCISCO M P; GONZALEZ, VICTOR H; GREENBAUM, ELI; HINOJOSA-DÍAZ, ISMAEL A; INEICH, IVAN; JIANG, JIANPING; KAHONO, SIH; KURY, ADRIANO B; LUCINDA, PAULO H F; LYNCH, JOHN D; MALÉCOT, VALÉRY; MARQUES, MARIANA P; MARRIS, JOHN W M; MCKELLAR, RYAN C;

ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Año: 2021 vol. 193 p. 381 - 387

0024-4082

For almost 30 years, there have been active discussions about the taxonomic impediment and the challenge this represents to address the current human-induced biodiversity crisis. From the start (Systematics Agenda 2000, 1994), the term ?taxonomic impediment? has been ambiguous, designating both the insufficiency and inadequacy of the resources put to the service of taxonomy (the taxonomic impediment sensu stricto) and its main consequence, the wide discrepancy between the reality of specific biodiversity and our knowledge of it (the taxonomic gap; Dubois, 2010; Raposo et al., 2020). The total number of species on our planet is unknown, and its various estimates (using different methods) are widely divergent, but consensus exists that we are far from having inventoried...