Nomenclature

A single animal can be called by a completely different name in each of the more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world, which makes ordinary common names useless for precise, unambiguous scientific communication across countries and languages. Nomenclature is the process of assigning one universally accepted scientific name to every organism or taxonomic group, solving exactly this problem — worldwide, the single scientific name Homo sapiens denotes humans regardless of what language the speaker uses. …