[Cz-biology] Species names

[Kim van der Linde]

David,

Look at for example the site of Tree-of-Life: http://www.tolweb.org/ all 
name there a re on the scientific name only, for example 
http://www.tolweb.org/Barnardius_zonarius/91491 and there are various 
other websites doing the same.

The scholarly consensus various per species, the fluffier the more the 
common name is used, but many many science articles use 'Drosophila' 
(strictly speaking a genus name) synonymous for 'Drosophila 
melanogaster', but none in their right mind would suggest to do that for 
a encyclopaedia article.

If it is all a popularity contest, that is fine, but I hope to avoid that.

Kim

David Goodman wrote:
> It's consistent all right, but  I thought we were to represent the
> scholarly consensus. The scholarly consensus of journal editors is to
> do nothing of the sort., as i showed for the panda. I was unable to
> find one single article in one single journal in all of Biological
> Abstracts where the title was the way we proposed it. The usages was
> about evenly split in article titles between Common name (scientific
> name) and Common name only.
> 
> Conceivably this is an exception. I'll try some other examples.
> 
> David Goodman
> 
> On 10/25/07, Kim van der Linde <kim at kimvdlinde.com> wrote:
>> For those who just through this medium jump in to the very specific case
>> (Giant Panda), please see the discussion of this at
>> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ_Talk:Biology_Workgroup at the various
>> entries. Before people based on the Giant Panda make decisions for many
>> species, please consider the following:
>>
>> 1. We have (multiple) common names for the fluffy and the furry and the
>> beautiful stuff, but there are many many without a common name:
>> 1a. What about those without a common name?
>> 1b. What about those with a very uncommon used common name?
>> 1c. What if one species has two or more common names (for example: Monk
>> parrot (British) versus Quacker Parrot (parts of the US); Cougar or
>> Mountain Lion or Puma)
>> 1d. What about common names used for multiple groups (for example: are
>> the Drosophilidae or the Tethritidae the fruitflies)?
>>
>> 2. Each and every name can be created as a redirect to the specific
>> page, as such, Giant Panda (http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Giant_Panda)
>> redirects to
>> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Ailuropoda_melanoleuca_(Giant_Panda) just
>> as http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Ailuropoda_melanoleuca should point to
>> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Ailuropoda_melanoleuca_(Giant_Panda) just
>> as Bai Xiong, Bamboo Bear, Da Xiong Mao, Hua Xiong, Mo, Pi xiu, Panda
>> and Panda Bear. As such, searching is not an issue at all, and both the
>> title as well as the first sentence makes immediately clear what is
>> going on.
>>
>> Base on al this, it was proposed on the Biology workgroup talkpage to
>> use the following solution:
>> ----------------
>> # Each species or higher taxon, except exceptions below, are to be
>> written under their official scientific name. If there is a single
>> established common name, that name is included in the title between
>> parenthesis. (e.g. "''Barnardius zonarius'' (Australian Ringneck)").
>> # Groups that are included in the "''Latin name'' (Common name)" system are:
>> #* Birds ([http://www.worldbirdnames.org/names.html offcial names]).
>> #* Mammals ([http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ the single authoritative
>> source for mammal names]).
>> #* Other groups to be added if a single authoritative source has been
>> established.
>> # If a single authoritative common name is available for a species (see
>> point above), that name is to be used in the article and overrules
>> English dialect varieties.
>> # Subspecies and specific populations are included in the article of the
>> species, unless they warrant a full article by themselves due to the
>> amount of subspecies specific information.
>> # All common names are created as redirects to the main article. All
>> scientific synonyms are created as redirects to the main article. In
>> case of the "''Latin name'' (Common name)" scheme, the the main
>> scientific name is also created as a redirect.
>> # Exceptions. The following domesticated species are created under their
>> common name, most of the time using "Domesticated " as a prefix:
>> #* [[Human]] (''Homo sapiens sapiens'')
>> #* [[Domesticated horse]] (''Equus ferus caballus'')
>> #* [[Domesticated cat]] (''Felis silvestris catus'')
>> #* [[Domesticated dog]] (''Canis lupus familiaris'')
>> #* [[Donkey]] (''Equus asinus asinus'') or (''Equus africanus assinus'')
>> #* To be completed. (''Camelus ferus''; ''Lama guanicoe''; ''Vicugna
>> vicugna''; ''Bos primigenius''; ''Bos gaurus''; ''Bubalus arnee''; ''Bos
>> mutus''; ''Capra aegagrus''; ''Ovis orientalis''; ''Cavia aperea'';
>> ''Mustela putorius''; ''Carassius gibelio''; ''Bombyx mandarina'', etc.)
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