[Taxacom] taxonomic names databases

[Stephen Thorpe]

The Wikipedia article that Mary refers to incorrectly cites the type species as Panthera pardus Linnaeus, 1758, but it should be cited as Felis pardus Linnaeus, 1758. I will see if I can get away with correcting it ...

Stephen

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On Sun, 28/8/16, Mary Barkworth <Mary.Barkworth at usu.edu> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] taxonomic names databases
 To: "Tony Rees" <tonyrees49 at gmail.com>
 Cc: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Sunday, 28 August, 2016, 11:43 AM
 
 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
 
 
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