Traditional taxonomy: Quo vadis?

TRADITIONAL TAXONOMY “Taxonomy is the science of naming,describing and classifying organisms and includes all plants,animals and microorganisms of the world”(Convention on Bi­ological Diversity 2016).It is obvious that progress in biological science is impossible without taxonomic ef­fort.During the last 250 years,taxonomists have named almost two million species of animals,plants and mi­cro-organisms.But recently taxonomy has entered a deep crisis(Agnarson&Kuntner 2007;Walter&Win­terton 2007);in particular,this crisis involves the sci­ence of traditional taxonomy.