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Zoological naming conventions trace back to the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, who, in 1758, compiled a bibliography-like overview summarizing the literature published up to that time for every species then known, while referencing the descriptions and illustrations contained therein.
International rules for zoological nomenclature mandate a two-part name (genus and species) that may be assigned to a species only once—at the time of its initial description (the principle of priority). Due to this principle and the fact that the identities of many taxa from early zoological publications remain unresolved, researchers rely heavily on access to original source literature—material that is becoming increasingly difficult to access as time goes on.
To make these essential sources available to the international scientific community, this project is digitizing and publishing online all original descriptions (covering approximately 10,000 animal species) and their associated references from the period 1757–1770 (comprising 100,000 image pages, about 3,000 of which are in color).
Since Linnaeus, in particular, frequently cited earlier works, this approach covers the most significant portion of early zoological literature. Alongside the digitization process, a zoological database is being established; this database links to the digitized original descriptions and enables targeted online searches for the described animal species.