What world Organization classifies all animal and plant species in the world?

Question

Who carries the bottom line if it's a new discovery of a new species or who provides international standards, that the world scientist accept?

Answer 1

It's called binomial nomenclature.

Here are some of these organizations.

From the mid nineteenth century onwards it became ever more apparent that a body of rules was necessary to govern scientific names. In the course of time these became Nomenclature Codes governing the naming of animals (ICZN), plants (incl. Fungi, cyanobacteria) (ICBN), bacteria (ICNB) and viruses (ICTV). These Codes differ.

For example, the ICBN, the plant Code does not allow tautonyms, whereas the ICZN, the animal Code does.

The starting points, the time from which these Codes are in effect (retroactively), vary from group to group. In botany the starting point will often be in 1753 (the year Carolus Linnaeus first published Species Plantarum), in zoology in 1758. Bacteriology started anew, with a starting point on 1980-01-01.[5]

A BioCode has been suggested to replace several codes, although implementation is not in sight. There also is debate concerning development of a PhyloCode to name clades of phylogenetic trees, rather than taxa. Proponents of the PhyloCode use the name "Linnaean Codes" for the joint existing Codes and "Linnaean taxonomy" for the scientific classification that uses these existing Codes.

Answer 2

It is not an organisation as such. There is a system known as the "Systema Naturae" founded or based on the discovers of C von Linne (1758) - this is an example of an identification system.

The systems are known as systematic authorities and are really just a set of rules and guide lines for taxonomy. The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature concerns itself with plants and fungi and similar codes are used for animals and bacteria.

These systems use Latin binomials when naming a species.. The system was established when Latin was the language of scholarship. It is still in use in the modern world due to the fact that it is an "extinct" language so this means it is not inoffensive and is universally accepted.

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