THANK YOU VERY MUCH IkanBilis..u nailed the question! i googled "carl linnaeus" and got the answer i'm looking for..very good article, explained in detail how they categorize the scientific name1. How do the person that discovers new species name that specific marine life? do they name to what ever name they like or do they have to follow certain guidelines or submit to certain body in order to confirm their finding? They would have to follow the classification scheme invented by Carl Linnaeus, Father of Taxonomy. The classification system establish consensus on plant and animal names and understand complex evolutionary relationships between organisms. The Linnaean taxonomic system begins with the most general category of Domain or Kingdom and becomes increasingly specific until it ends with a specific genus and species name
2. How do they get the scientific name? The scientific names is derived from Greek and/or Latin roots. Linnaeus developed his system so that each species had a Latin double name. The first name is the genus and the second is the species name. This two-word naming system is called binomial nomenclature. The name is always italicized with the genus capitalized and the species in lowercase letters.
Example:
To demonstrate how an organism is classified, let us use the classification of the commonly named “the blue whale”. The information provided by this common name is not enough to put the whale into any evolutionary relationship with other organisms. Scientists however, call the blue whale by its scientific name—
Balaenoptera musculus. An example of how scientists would classify and name a blue whale is as follows:
• All whales are animals because they have more than one cell, eat food and originate from a fertilized egg—so they first are categorized into the most general category—Kingdom Animalia.
• Whales are placed into the Phylum Chordata (the category below Kingdom) because they have a spinal cord and gill pouches. In fact, humans are also in Phylum Chordata.
• Because they are warm-blooded, produce milk for their young and have a heart with four chambers, whales are in the Class Mammalia.
• At the “Order” category, whales begin to be distinguished from humans and other land mammals. Whales are classified as cetaceans because they live in the water all year round. The suborder is Mysticeti due to the baleen plates in the mouths of whales, helping them to filter in food.
• Blue whales have folds around their throat that expand to take in large volumes of water when feeding. Because not all whales have this characteristic, blue whales are placed into the Family “Balaenidae”.
• Within the Family is another group of species more immediately related to each other. The “Genus” for blue whales is
Balaenoptera.
• The definition of a species includes many factors, especially the requirement that individuals must be able to successfully breed with each other. The species name for blue whales is
musculus, meaning that in addition to other common traits, whales of the species
musculus are able to breed with each other and provide viable (living) offspring. The final scientific name is
Balaenoptera musculus with the genus capitalized and the species name in lower case letters and both italicized.
For further reading, can refer to MARINE TAXONOMYhttp://marinebio.org/Oceans/MarineTaxonomy.asp
