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

[dipteryx at freeler.nl]

Van: tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org namens greg whitbread
Verzonden: zo 21-11-2010 11:22

> To complete the circle ...

> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/plants.html  =

> Plant Taxonomic Database Standards No. 3

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I have not looked at this in detail, but a truly outrageous error
immediately jumps out!, where it says 
    "The full name of an intergeneric hybrid has in addition 
     an "x" (lower case alphabetic x symbol) preceding the 
     generic name as a generic hybrid marker. "

    "The full name of a named interspecific hybrid or chimaera 
     has in addition an "x" (lower case alphabetic x) or "+"
     plus sign) preceding the species epithet"

There is no conceivable ambiguity in 
     "Art. H.1.1.  Hybridity is indicated by the use of the 
      multiplication sign × or by the addition of the prefix
     “notho-”¹ to the term denoting the rank of the taxon."

There never has been a "(lower case alphabetic x)" allowed, except
where there is force majeure.
     "Rec. H.3A.2.  If the multiplication sign is not available
      it should be approximated by a lower case letter “x” 
     (not italicized)."

(BTW, there is no such thing as a "species epithet" in botany;
it is a "specific epithet").

Paul van Rijckevorsel



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