describing new spp in tabular form

[Donald Quicke]

Happy New Year Taxacomers,

I was wandering, given that I have a large number of (insect) species to
describe from the tropics as part of a generic revision, whether it is
possible to do so largely in the form of a table, i.e., rather like a data
matrix. The alternative traditional way of long hand sentences (even when
written in a staccato style) will run to many, many pages.

Although, I'm an entomologist, I'd be equally intersted to know if a
tabular form of description was allowable in botanical nomenclature, albeit
with Latin diagnoses appended.

Dr Donald Quicke
NERC Advanced Fellow in Taxonomy
Department of Biology
Imperial College at Silwood Park
Ascot, Berks SL5 7PY
U.K.

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