[Taxacom] taxonomic names databases

[Tony Rees]

Hi Mary,

According to McKenna & Bell, "Classification of Mammals above the Species
Level", the author of the genus Panthera is Oken, 1816. You can get the
same information via IRMNG e.g. this search:

http://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxlist&searchpar=0&tComp=equals&tName=Panthera&action=search

I agree, Catalogue of Life is deficient in nomenclatural information at
levels above species (which qualifies my remark earlier about the
usefulness of downloading e.g. World Spider Catalog data via that route if
you are interested in information above species rank).

Regards - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees

On 28 August 2016 at 09:09, Mary Barkworth <Mary.Barkworth at usu.edu> wrote:

> A problem that I have with many of the databases that I have used is that
> they ignore (or do not reveal) the authors of names above the rank of
> species. I find that Wikipedia is often the most useful resource in this
> regard. For Panthera, even Wikipedia let me down.  From the comment that
> the genus was “was named and first described by the German naturalist Oken<
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_Oken> in 1816” and the fact that the
> citation for the type species, Panthera pardus, is Linnaeus 1758 I think
> that the author of Panthera should be given as (Linnaeus 1758) but I wish
> CoL routinely provided such information.  I like CoL, but the absence of
> author citations for higher ranks, IMO, lowers its value.
>
> And yes, if someone would either correct my citation or confirm it, I
> would be grateful.
> Mary
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