The Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (1707-1778) developed the foundations of modern taxonomy and introduced the concept of species to biological systematics. In his two-volume work "Species Plantarum", published in 1753, he described all the plants known to him on 1,200 pages with around 7,300 species. Among other things, the plant genus Vitis(grapevine) was described here for the first time. Together with the work "Systema Naturæ", published in 1758, this established the scientific nomenclature in botany and zoology that is still used today.
However, Linne's classification system did not yet include all the categories and levels used today. However, these are not always used for all plants or animals. The respective use simply depends on how complex the respective units are. The three main categories almost always mentioned in specialised sources are family-genus-species. Each category can be broken down into "subcategories" (subspecies). Similarly, a "superdivision" can be created as the last sublevel of a main category, which then stands above the next main category (superdiviso).
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