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A strength of Linnaean taxonomy is that it can be used to organize the different kinds of living organisms, simply and practically.

Every species can be given a unique ( and, one hopes, stable ) name, as compared with common names that are often neither unique nor consistent from place to place and language to language.

This uniqueness and stability are, of course, a result of the acceptance by working systematists ( biologists specializing in taxonomy ), not merely of the binomial names themselves, but of the rules governing the use of these names, which are laid down in formal Nomenclature Codes.