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Published September 3, 2013 | Version v1
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Revolving images and multi-image keys open new horizons in descriptive taxonomy: ZooKeys working examples

Creators

  • 1. National Museum of Natural History and Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2. Institute of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 3. Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), , Denmark
  • 4. Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 5. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen OE, Denmark
  • 6. Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark
  • 7. Department of Animal Biology, Institute of Biology, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 8. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 9. Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
  • 10. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Washington DC, United States of America

Description

This editorial highlights the importance to taxonomy of an innovative illustration technique (Akkari et al. 2013, Cheung et al. 2013) that allows integration of scanning electron microscope images into an interactive rotatable model (rSEM) to visualize complex morphological features. It also introduces a highly visual identification key to 12 millipede species from Tunisiathat uses simultaneously line drawings, photographs, scanning electron micrographs and interactive rotatable modelsto illustrate most informative taxonomic characters in the studied group.

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