Hi Andréa, ideally you would only publish the infraspecific author in both the scientificName and scientificNameAuthorship which is also recommended by the codes as far as I am aware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author_citation_(botany)#Authorship_of_subsidia...

best, Markus

On 25 Feb 2015, at 12:42, Andréa Matsunaga ammatsun@ufl.edu wrote:

Dear experts.

What is the best practice for the DwC scientificNameAuthorship when 

there is a specific epithet author as well as infraspecific epithet author in a scientific name? Both names concatenated by some character? Only the infraspecific epithet author? Both pieces of information would go into DwC scientificname, but I'm looking for how users would use scientificNameAuthorship and what is useful to have there.

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