[tdwg-content] [tdwg-tag] Inclusion of authorship in DwC scientificName: good or bad?

[Niels Klazenga]

From the ICBN (Vienna Code):


60F.1. All specific and infraspecific epithets should be written with an initial lower-case letter.


Even though this is a recommendation and not an article, translating that into yes an epithet may be capitalised, it is just not done very often, is a bit of a twist.


Niels


>>>  11/20/10 2:01 AM >>>
Actually, yes, in botany a specific or infraspecific epithet 
may be capitalized. These days it is rarely done and very 
likely it will disallowed within a few decades.

It is very unusual to capitalize an epithet such as affinis;
capitalization is reserved for nouns and names. So, in a 
publication dedicated to Sijfert Koorders one may find
names such as Millettia Koordersii, deliberately capitalized.

Paul 


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org namens Dmitry Mozzherin
Verzonden: vr 19-11-2010 15:03

> Is it allowed to have capitalized 'var. part' of a name? 
> I did not know that

Dima





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