On 21/11/2010, at 9:00 AM, <Tony.Rees@csiro.au> <Tony.Rees@csiro.au> wrote:

 dwc:scientificName=Philander opossum Linnaeus, 1758
 dwc:canonicalName=Philander opossum
 dwc:scientificNameAuthorship=Linnaeus, 1758

However the element "dwc:canonicalName" does not seem to exist, e.g. not present in http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm - Maybe it should...

The current TDWG vocabulary calls this "nameComplete".

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