title: FEATURES OF VERTEBRATE NAMING IN UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC USAGE
abstract: The system of knowledge on the formation, unification and establishment of lists of vernacular names of different groups of animals, from local to global levels of description and analysis of biotic diversity is considered. The impetus for the study was the need to develop a system of vernacular names at the level of different taxonomic ranks, from species and genera to families and orders. The needs for the development of naming are determined both by the tasks of streamlining official lists of