The word systematics was first used in which book and by whom? Share with your friends Share 0 Priya Verma answered this Linnaeus described 5900 species of plants in his book Species Plantarum (1753) and 4326 species of animals in Systema Naturae (1758). -1 View Full Answer Vishruth Shetty answered this Carolus Linnaeus, was a Swedish botanist that developed the taxonomic system, called binomial nomenclature, that is used throughout Biology. His original system was?first?published in 1735 under the title Systema Naturae. 0