ABSTRACT
Global biodiversity is in crisis. Celebrating the 2010 Year of Biodiversity is, sadly, an ironic exercise: while the majority of species remain unknown, scientists unambiguously agree that humans are currently causing a mass extinction of unprecedented proportions (Dunn et al. 2009; Pimm et al. 1995; Reid 1995; Wake and Vredenburg 2008). Yet at the same time, taxonomy, the science of describing and inventorizing biodiversity, faces an equally unprecedented crisis.
