Throughout the world, official species names are in _____.

Latin

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Latin

The system of Binomial Nomenclature was given by Carl Linnaeus. As Linnaeus had followed the work of early biologists, he also adopted their language Latin, so as to maintain a uniform code for the procedure of nomenclature in Taxonomy. Biological names are thus, generally in Latin.

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