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The scientific name efficiently communicates information about the organism’s identity, taxonomy, and phylogeny. Generally, scientific names help scientists worldwide understand a particular ...

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Scientific names use italics. The genus name starts with a capital letter. The species name is lower case. Sometimes the last name of the person who named it comes after that.

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