U.Taxonstand: An R package for standardizing scientific names of plants and animals

Autor: Jian Zhang, Hong Qian

Publikováno v: Plant Diversity, Vol 45, Iss 1, Pp 1-5 (2023)

The scientific names of organisms are key identifiers of plants and animals. Correctly treating scientific names is a prerequisite for biodiversity research and documentation. Here, we present an R package, ‘U.Taxonstand’, which can standardize a

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Setting scientific names at all taxonomic ranks in italics facilitates their quick recognition in scientific papers

Autor: Marco Thines, Takayuki Aoki, Pedro W. Crous, Kevin D. Hyde, Robert Lücking, Elaine Malosso, Tom W. May, Andrew N. Miller, Scott A. Redhead, Andrey M. Yurkov, David L. Hawksworth

Publikováno v: IMA Fungus, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-5 (2020)

Abstract It is common practice in scientific journals to print genus and species names in italics. This is not only historical as species names were traditionally derived from Greek or Latin. Importantly, it also facilitates the rapid recognition of

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An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature

Autor: Jean-François Molino, Daniel Sabatier, Pierre Grenand, Julien Engel, Dawn Frame, Piero G. Delprete, Marie Fleury, Guillaume Odonne, Damien Davy, Eve J. Lucas, Claire A. Martin

Publikováno v: Adansonia
Adansonia, 2022, 44 (26), pp.345-903. ⟨10.5252/adansonia2022v44a26⟩
Adansonia (1280-8571) (r Muséum national d'histoire naturelle), 2022-12, Vol. 44, N. 26, P. 345-903

We present a list of tree species of French Guiana, based on data collected from herbarium specimens and tree inventories, and verified against all available taxonomic literature to date. The list contains 1811 taxa representing 87 families and 421 g

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https://doi.org/10.5252/adansonia2022v44a26

Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels.

Autor: Ruse, Michael¹ (AUTHOR)

Publikováno v: Quarterly Review of Biology. Mar2021, Vol. 96 Issue 1, p35-36. 2p.

Taxonomic practice, creativity and fashion: what's in a spider name?

Autor: Stefano Mammola, Nathan Viel, Dylan Amiar, Atishya Mani, Christophe Hervé, Stephen B. Heard, Diego Fontaneto, Julien Pétillon

Publikováno v: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023, ⟨10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac097⟩

There’s a secret pleasure in naming new species. Besides traditional etymologies recalling the sampling locality, habitat, or morphology of the species, etymologies may be tributes to some meaningful person (for example, the species’ collector, t

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