A taxonomic species, the formal name applied to a segment of an evolving lineage, is a scientific representation named by a taxonomist. There is a dearth of taxonomists, which continues to decline, leading to the oft‐mentioned bottleneck in the formal naming of undescribed species and their revision. For conservationist's dependent upon formal names and practitioners who describe species, this has many implications for the preservation and protection of species. While advances in technologies, such as machine learning and genetic barcoding, offer potential benefits for species monitoring, early detection of invasive species, discovering and identifying species, they are by no means universal for all invertebrate groups and cannot replace the role of a taxonomist for providing binomials for identifiable threat‐listed species.
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