[Taxacom] Finding your species in Mendeley

[Richard Petit]

I am unable to verify the statement about retrieval of a "list of marine 
species authored by anyone."  I tried a couple of (long deceased) authors 
whose works are familiar and whose taxa I have in list form, and WoRMS comes 
up very short.  I realize that WoRMS is a "work in progress" and incorrect 
statements about its capabilties do not do much to enhance its image.

dick p.

> On 5 Dec 2011, at 23:40, Geoff Read wrote:
>
>> Rod mentioned WoRMS earlier. Just to point out that in WoRMS,
>> www.marinespecies.org, one can already get the list of marine species
>> authored by anyone by a taxon search using the Authority option. For
>> example 'd'Orbigny' yields links to 412 marine species names
>> (d'Orbigny is unlikely to be setting up a Mendeley account any time
>> soon, so this is handy). Name disambiguation is possible at least by
>> taxon group, and by date of publication (eg., easy to find that
>> d'Orbigny published at least
>> 179 species in the 1830s, from which a further 106 recombinations exist).