Linnaean System Of Taxonomy. Linnaean taxonomy is a system of classification widely used in the biological sciences. Botanist carl linnaeus is regarded as the founder of the current system of taxonomy, as he developed a ranked system known as linnaean taxonomy for categorizing organisms and binominal nomenclature for naming organisms.

It was first developed by carolus linnaeus in the 18th century during the great expansion of natural history knowledge. This system of taxonomy (called linnaean) was developed even before darwin's theory of evolution, and even before the modern science of paleontology. The importance of the linnaeus system