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

Tony.Rees at csiro.au Tony.Rees at csiro.au
Fri Nov 19 07:07:18 CET 2010


Here's something a zoologist has written, though (Cavalier-Smith, 1993):

[Class] "Ebridea Lemmermann, 1901 emend. Deflandre, 1936 stat. nov. Loeblich III, 1970 orthog. emend."

I'm sure a parser will have fun deducing what of this forms the authority...

Cheers - Tony
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-
> bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Jim Croft
> Sent: Friday, 19 November 2010 4:59 PM
> To: Paul Murray
> Cc: tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org List; "Markus Döring (GBIF)"
> Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] [tdwg-tag] Inclusion of authorship in DwC
> scientificName: good or bad? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> 
> Just quickly Paul, botanist would *never* say Pinus L. pinus, or Pinus
> pinus pinus L.  If we needed the author string (and I admit we grossly
> overuse it where it is not necessary, probably becasue it makes things
> look scientific and important) we would go for something like Pinus
> patula (personWhoCreatedTheEpithet)
> personWhoMovedTheEpithetIntoThisGenus.  For some inexplicable reason
> zoologists throw away the parentheses and the stuff following.
> 
> For an autonum, from the Glossary in the 2006 botanical code, p. 484 "
> autonym: ... specific epithet repeated without an author citation as
> the final epithet in the name of ... an infraspecific taxon name that
> included the type of the adopted, legitimate name of the ... species
> ..."
> 
> Thus, if you wanted to render an autonymic name with author, it would
> be something like:
> Pinus patula authorString var. patula
> The autonymic infraspecies epithet appears never to have an author;
> the authorship is implied from the authorship of the species epithet.
> 
> jim
> 
> p.s. also, avoid modelling hybrids and hybrid formulae - therein lies
> madness and putrifaction of the spirit...
> 
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Paul Murray <pmurray at anbg.gov.au> wrote:
> >        zoological -    Vombatus ursinus ursinus Mike
> >        botanical - Pinus L. pinus
> 
> --
> _________________
> Jim Croft ~ jim.croft at gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~
> http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft
> 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point
> of doubtful sanity.'
>  - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
> 
> Please send URIs, not attachments:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> _______________________________________________
> tdwg-content mailing list
> tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
> http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content


More information about the tdwg-content mailing list