24-441: See text The Alosidae , or the shads , are a family of clupeiform fishes. The family currently comprises four genera worldwide, and about 32 species. The shads are pelagic (open water) schooling fish, of which many are anadromous or even landlocked. Several species are of commercial importance, e.g. in the genus Alosa (river herrings), Brevoortia (menhadens), and Sardina . The Alosidae were previously included in
48-554: A lack of widespread consensus within the scientific community for extended periods. The continual publication of new data and diverse opinions plays a crucial role in facilitating adjustments and ultimately reaching a consensus over time. The naming of families is codified by various international bodies using the following suffixes: The taxonomic term familia was first used by French botanist Pierre Magnol in his Prodromus historiae generalis plantarum, in quo familiae plantarum per tabulas disponuntur (1689) where he called
72-422: A large estate. While studying at Angoulême , Bentham came across a copy of A. P. de Candolle 's Flore française , and became interested in the analytical tables for identifying plants. He immediately tested them on the first plant he saw. The result was successful and he applied it to every plant he came across. In London in 1823, he met English botanists. His uncle pushed him to study law at Lincoln's Inn . He
96-545: A remarkable linguistic aptitude. By the age of seven, he could speak French, German and Russian, and he learned Swedish during a short residence in Sweden while still a child. The family made a long tour through France, staying two years at Montauban , where Bentham studied Hebrew and mathematics in the Protestant Theological School. They eventually settled near Montpellier where Sir Samuel bought
120-611: A scheme for the preparation of a series of Floras or descriptions in the English language of the indigenous plants of British colonies and possessions. Bentham began with the Flora Hongkongensis in 1861, which was the first comprehensive work on any part of the little-known flora of China and Hong Kong, including Hong Kong croton . This was followed by the Flora Australiensis , in seven volumes (1863–1878),
144-564: Is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker , his Genera Plantarum (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth , on 22 September 1800. His father, Sir Samuel Bentham , a naval architect , was the only brother of Jeremy Bentham to survive into adulthood. His mother, Mary Sophia Bentham , was a botanist and author. Bentham had no formal education but had
168-521: The Genera Plantarum of George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker this word ordo was used for what now is given the rank of family. Families serve as valuable units for evolutionary, paleontological, and genetic studies due to their relatively greater stability compared to lower taxonomic levels like genera and species. George Bentham George Bentham CMG FRS FLS (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884)
192-692: The Linnean Society of London from 1861 to 1874. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1866. He was appointed CMG (Companion of St Michael & St George) in 1878. His foreign awards included the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1879. Bentham's first publication was his Catalogue des plantes indigènes des Pyrénées et du Bas Languedoc (Paris 1826),
216-491: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . At the same time, he contemplated the abandonment of botanical work. However, he yielded to the persuasion of Sir William Jackson Hooker , John Lindley and other scientific friends. In 1855 he took up his residence in London, and worked at Kew for five days a week, with a brief summer holiday, from this time onwards until the end of his life. In 1857, the government sanctioned
240-455: The law of real property . But the most remarkable production of this period was the Outline of a New System of Logic: With a Critical Examination of Dr. Whately's Elements of Logic (1827). In this the principle of the quantification of the predicate was first explicitly stated. This Stanley Jevons declared to be undoubtedly the most fruitful discovery made in abstract logical science since
264-601: The botanical descriptions for The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur . The editor, Richard Brinsley Hinds , had been surgeon on HMS Sulphur 1835-41 while she explored the Pacific coast of the Americas . In 1854 he found the maintenance of a herbarium and library too expensive. He, therefore, offered them to the government on the understanding that they should form the foundation of such necessary aids to research in
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#1732775261552288-542: The family Juglandaceae , but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". The delineation of what constitutes a family— or whether a described family should be acknowledged— is established and decided upon by active taxonomists . There are not strict regulations for outlining or acknowledging a family, yet in the realm of plants, these classifications often rely on both the vegetative and reproductive characteristics of plant species. Taxonomists frequently hold varying perspectives on these descriptions, leading to
312-540: The family as a rank intermediate between order and genus was introduced by Pierre André Latreille in his Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel (1796). He used families (some of them were not named) in some but not in all his orders of "insects" (which then included all arthropods ). In nineteenth-century works such as the Prodromus of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle and
336-590: The first flora of any large continental area that had ever been finished. His greatest work was the Genera Plantarum , begun in 1862, and concluded in 1883 in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker . His most famous work, however, was the Handbook of the British flora , begun in 1853 and first published in 1858. This was used by students for over a century, running into many editions. After his death, it
360-605: The herring family Clupeidae . Alosidae contains the following 4 genera: Family (biology) Family ( Latin : familia , pl. : familiae ) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy . It is classified between order and genus . A family may be divided into subfamilies , which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to
384-481: The new line of thought was complete, and included a change from typology in taxonomy to an appreciation that "We cannot form an idea of a species from a single individual, nor of a genus from a single one of its species. We can no more set up a typical species than a typical individual." Bentham was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1859 and elected a Fellow in 1862. He served as president of
408-542: The result of a careful exploration of the Pyrenees in company with G. A. Walker Arnott (1799–1868), afterwards professor of botany in the University of Glasgow . In the catalogue Bentham adopted the principle from which he never deviated, of citing nothing at second-hand. This was followed by articles on various legal subjects: on codification , in which he disagreed with his uncle, on the laws affecting larceny and on
432-575: The seventy-six groups of plants he recognised in his tables families ( familiae ). The concept of rank at that time was not yet settled, and in the preface to the Prodromus Magnol spoke of uniting his families into larger genera , which is far from how the term is used today. In his work Philosophia Botanica published in 1751, Carl Linnaeus employed the term familia to categorize significant plant groups such as trees , herbs , ferns , palms , and so on. Notably, he restricted
456-489: The time of Aristotle . Before sixty copies had been sold the publisher became bankrupt and the stock went for wastepaper. The book passed into oblivion, and it was not until 1873 that Bentham's claims to priority were finally vindicated against those of Sir William Hamilton by Herbert Spencer . In 1836 he published his Labiatarum genera et species . In preparing this work he visited, between 1830 and 1834, every European herbarium, several more than once. The following winter
480-549: The use of this term solely within the book's morphological section, where he delved into discussions regarding the vegetative and generative aspects of plants. Subsequently, in French botanical publications, from Michel Adanson 's Familles naturelles des plantes (1763) and until the end of the 19th century, the word famille was used as a French equivalent of the Latin ordo (or ordo naturalis ). In zoology ,
504-712: Was called to the bar and in 1832 held his first and only legal brief . However, his interest in botany never flagged and he became secretary of the Horticultural Society of London from 1829 to 1840. In 1832, he inherited the property of his uncle, Jeremy Bentham . Having inherited his father's estate the previous year, he was now sufficiently well off to do whatever he wanted, which was botany , jurisprudence and logic . Bentham married Sarah Jones (1798–1881), daughter of Sir Harford Jones Brydges , on 11 April 1833; they did not have children. Bentham died at his London home on 10 September 1884, aged 83. He
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#1732775261552528-520: Was an English botanist , described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He
552-541: Was interred in Brompton Cemetery . Bentham's life spanned the Darwinian revolution, and his young colleague Joseph Dalton Hooker was Darwin 's closest friend and one of the first to accept Darwin's ideas. Until then, Bentham unquestioningly believed that species were fixed. In 1874 he wrote that "Fifteen years have sufficed to establish a theory of evolution by natural selection ". Bentham's conversion to
576-729: Was passed in Vienna , where he produced his Commentationes de Leguminosarum generibus , published in the annals of the Vienna Museum. In 1842 he moved to Pontrilas in Herefordshire. His chief occupation for the next few years was his contributions to the Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis , which was being carried on by his friend, A. P. de Candolle . In all these dealt with some 4,730 species. In 1844, he provided
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