[Taxacom] taxonomic names databases

[Mary Barkworth]

Thank you Tony.  I shall correct my site.

From: Tony Rees [mailto:tonyrees49 at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2016 4:18 PM
To: Mary Barkworth <Mary.Barkworth at usu.edu>
Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] taxonomic names databases

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<mailto: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