Apart from the fact that I can barely bring myself to care about plants ;) I suspect that the vast majority of names do not present these problems. Why do we let edge cases determine what we do?
Regards
Rod
On 14 Mar 2012, at 19:10, Dmitry Mozzherin wrote:
To add to Gregor's post
scientificNameAuthorship common usage assumes that a name is a linear construct which is true for many cases. However in general scientific name is a tree, and it is most obvious with names of hybrids. So when people try to apply solutions like splitting name to canonical form and authorship, it won't work for everybody and everything
Dima
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com wrote:
- When providers had a text blob for the name, separate from the text blob
for the authorship, they could concatenate the two for presentation in scientificName, and also provide the authorship bit in scientificNameAuthorship, and the consumers could easily strip the authorship from scientificName to produce the functional equivalent of a canonical name.
this does not work for autonyms in botany, i.e. the infraspecific taxa where the infraspecific epithet and the specific epithet are the same. Here the author is before the infraspecific epithet. Inconvenient, but prevents the simplest solution.
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