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'Unsquishable' Beetle - the 'Ironclad beetle' or Diabolical beetle.
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[QUOTE="BillTre, post: 6408276, member: 581757"] In general, the taxonomic terms used to label different species has been in flux for several reasons: [LIST=1] [*]personal competition between those naming things [*]philosophical differences between lumpers (who like fewer categories containing large collections of species) vs. splitters (more categories containing fewer species). [*]new and conflicting methods and rules for naming species (such as descent vs. similarity based groups of species) [*]immense amounts of new genomic data and greatly increased abilities (computers) to analyze them [/LIST] In biological taxonomy, although "there can only be one" is the general idea for unique designators (species names). However, in some cases the single accepted name for a species can change rapidly and remain in dispute for extended periods. The literature therefore is a scattered history of not easy to follow name changes. Sometimes this makes knowing what species is being discussed, or what it should be called, difficult. [/QUOTE]
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