Have We Got the Names "Right"?

Have We Got the Names “Right”?Why, Geekery & Logistics

David P. Shorthouse

Cryptantha celosioides (Eastwood) Paysoncock’s-comb cryptantha

©2011 Ryan Batten

Cryptantha nubigena var. celosioides (Eastwood) B. Boivin

Hemihomonyms

« If two different species, genera or other taxons have the same name, this name is a homonym. Homonyms are illegal if they belong to the same code of nomenclature. If same name belongs to different codes, it is a hemihomonym (Starobogatov, 1991). »

Pieris spp.Pieris japonica

Pieris rapae

Identification

scientificName

« The full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known. When forming part of an Identification, this should be the name in lowest level taxonomic rank that can be determined. This term should not contain identification qualifications, which should instead be supplied in the identificationQualifier term. »

ColeopteraCtenomys sociabilisQuercus agrifolia var. oxyadenia (Torr.) J.T. Howell

identifiedBy

« A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people, groups, or organizations who assigned the Taxon to the subject. »

scientificNameID

« An identifier for the nomenclatural (not taxonomic) details of a scientific name. »

urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37829-1:1.3

identificationQualifier

« A brief phrase or a standard term ("cf.", "aff.") to express the determiner's doubts about the Identification. »

1. For the determination Quercus aff. agrifolia var. oxyadenia, identificationQualifier would be "aff. agrifolia var. oxyadenia" with accompanying values "Quercus" in genus, "agrifolia" in specificEpithet, "oxyadenia" in infraspecificEpithet, and "var." in rank.

2. For the determination Quercus agrifolia cf. var. oxyadenia, identificationQualifier would be "cf. var. oxyadenia " with accompanying values "Quercus" in genus, "agrifolia" in specificEpithet, "oxyadenia" in infraspecificEpithet, and "var." in rank.

genussubgenusspecificEpithetsubspecificEpithetscientificNameAuthorship

Nomenclature

« The status related to the original publication of the name and its conformance to the relevant rules of nomenclature. It is based essentially on an algorithm according to the business rules of the code. It requires no taxonomic opinion.»

nomenclaturalStatus

nom. ambig., nom. illeg., nom. subnud.

nomenclaturalCode

« A reference for the publication in which the scientificName was originally established under the rules of the associated nomenclaturalCode. »

namePublishedIn

namePublishedInIDnamePublishedInYear

originalNameUsage

« The taxon name, with authorship and date information if known, as it originally appeared when first established under the rules of the associated nomenclaturalCode. The basionym (botany) or basonym (bacteriology) of the scientificName or the senior/earlier homonym for replaced names. »

Taxonomy

acceptedNameUsage

« The full name, with authorship and date information if known, of the currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) taxon. »

Classification

higherClassificationkingdomphylumclassorderfamily

parentNameUsageparentNameUsageIDtaxonomicStatus

Taxon Concepts

nameAccordingTonameAccordingToIDtaxonConceptIDclassorderfamily

Where Is there More Help?

TDWG ListservTaxacom ListservCanadensys Google Group

So Where/How Do We Start?

http://iphylo.blogspot.ca/2012/02/using-google-refine-and-taxonomic.html

http://www.canadensys.net/refine/

Let’s Get Organized…

Have We Got the Names "Right"?

Science

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