Re: [tdwg-content] [tdwg-tag] Inclusion of authorship in DwC scientificName: good or bad?
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@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
From: "Niels Klazenga" Niels.Klazenga@rbg.vic.gov.au Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 10:08 AM
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.
*** Well, in the 2000, Saint Louis Code, this read: "All specific and infraspecific epithets should be written with an initial lower-case letter, although authors desiring to use initial capital letters may do so when the epithets are directly derived from the names of persons (whether actual or mythical), or are vernacular (or non-Latin) names, or are former generic names."
The change in Vienna Code was made by the Editorial Committee, on its own authority (that is, it is an "editorial change").
Given that this matter was put to the vote at Saint Louis (1999) with a 59.25% majority in favour (60% being required for the change) of requiring a lower-case initial letter, it is reasonable to expect that in the not too distant future it will become a requirement. For the moment, it is allowed and I do see it happening, even now, from time to time. In the literature at large it is much more common.
Paul
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@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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