Hi Russ,
Here is the opening paragraph from the section in the International Code
of Zoological Nomeclature (ICZN) concerned with using parentheses "
51.3. Use of parentheses around authors' names (and dates) in changed
combinations. When a species-group name is combined with a generic name
other than the original one, the name of the author of the species-group
name, if cited, is to be enclosed in parentheses (the date, if cited, is
to be enclosed within the same parentheses)." If you want to read the
whole of Sect. 51. 3 or even more exciting, the whole code, you can find
it athttp://www.iczn.org/iczn/index.jsp
in chapter 11.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
russ lamb wrote:
Like many of you I have been perusing the Species lists section of this
long-awaited tome.
Not being literate in the conventions of scientific literature, and having failed to find any
explanation in either the "Introduction"or "Species lists" section of the book,
I am puzzled as to why the second column of the species lists(untitled, but ?obviously author and
date of type specimen?) contains unbracketed and bracketed names and dates. For example on page 38
one finds:
Hirundo noexena Gould,1842 Welcome Swallow
Petrochelidon ariel (Gould,1842) Fairy Martin
There must be a reason for bracketing (which at a guess is the case in more
than 60% of listed species) but I can't find,or even begin to comprehend, what
that reason is.
I await enlightenment.
Russ Lamb,Maleny,SEQ
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