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'''Rose Trantula''' on [http://www.practical-pet-care.com/spider_question.php?ID=1.2006100416232172 Pet Care Forum] | '''Rose Trantula''' on [http://www.practical-pet-care.com/spider_question.php?ID=1.2006100416232172 Pet Care Forum] | ||
'''''Araneus angulatus''''' on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (this is a duplicate. [[User:BenWest|BenWest]] 21:56, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)) | '''''Araneus angulatus''''' on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (this is a duplicate. [[User:BenWest|BenWest]] 21:56, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)) | ||
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Species Examples
Examples of common and scientific names of living things, which could be marked up with a "species" (or similar) microformat. Note use of matching pairs of examples, where possible.
If you find a link which is not working, please replace it with a suitable alternative, rather than simply deleting it. Thank you.
binominals
Birds
Black-tailed Godwit on West Midland Bird Club's Ladywalk reserve latest news page
<b class="bird">Black-tailed Godwit</b>
Limosa limosa on West Midland Bird Club's county lists'
<td>Limosa limosa</td>
Mammal
Wolf on International Wolf Center
Fish
Northern pike on Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Esox lucius on Pike & Zander
Insect
Death’s Head Hawkmoth on Animal Teachers
Acherontia atropos on UK Moths
Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) on Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre
Arachnid
Rose Trantula on Pet Care Forum
Araneus angulatus on Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre (this is a duplicate. BenWest 21:56, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT))
Plant
Bog Pimpernel on Map Reading's Wildflower Images
Anagallis tenella on BioImages
Persicaria campanulatum on rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information Centre for the Cheshire region
Fungi
Amanita muscaria on California Fungi
- as Amanita muscaria (L. per Fr.) Hooker
- as Amanita muscaria var. flavivolvata
Fly Agaric on Trees for Life
Rhodocollybia maculata (Albertini & Schweinitz: Fries) Singer on [1]
- also written as Rhodocollybia maculata (Albertini & Schweinitz ex Fries) Singer
- (This is where a post-Linnean author is given special rights (because his descriptions were comparatively complete - i.e. recognisable) so his interpretation of earlier names is taken as the sense meant by the original author. Think these used to be "apud" and are now "ex" although a colon has also been used. There are only a few sanctioning authors, the main one being Elias Fries.(Fr.) )
More than binominals
Authority
Pica pica Linnaeus, (1758) on Wikipedia: European Magpie
- (i.e. named by Linnaeus in 1758)
Unspecified species
Podiceps sp. on Bird Life
<i>Podiceps</i> sp.
Psyllid plant hopper on Ramblings of a Naturalist blog
Sub-species
Animal
Larus glaucoides kumlieni on BirdGuides
Kumlien's Gull on Birds Ireland
Plant
Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum on [2] (also has other examples; note lack of required italics)
<b>Pisum sativum</b> L. subsp. <b>sativum</b>
Cultivars (plant)
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata' on Wikipedia: Cultivar
<dd><i>Chamaecyparis lawsoniana</i> 'Aureomarginata'</dd>
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Golden Wonder' on plantago.nl
Cultivar groups (plant)
Brassica oleracea Botrytis Group on Wikipedia: Cultivar
Trade names (plant)
Rosa Peace on Wikipedia: Cultivar
- ("Peace" is a trade designation or "selling name" for the cultivar R. 'Madame A. Meilland' and should therefore be printed in a different typeface from the rest of the name, without any quote marks)
Sunflower 'Giant Single' on Johnsons Seeds
Sunflower 'Infrared' F1 on Johnsons Seeds
- (Note "F1" cross designation)
Variety (plant)
Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon on Dave's Garden
Sub-variety (plant)
Betula ermani var. genuina subvar. brevidentata on National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, Gloucestershire Group (plus many other examples)
Form (plant)
Acanthocalycium spiniflorum f. klimpelianum on Wikipedia: form (botany)
- aka Acanthocalycium spiniflorum forma klimpelianum
Sense (plant)
Ranunculus aquatilis s.l. and R. aquatilis s.s; on Blithfield Reservoir: Survey of Flowering Plants... (see also footnotes on that page)
Cross (plant)
Digitalis x mertonensis on Hortax
- The hybrid name for all plants derived from the cross between D. purpurea and D. grandiflora. The "x" indicates the hybrid status.
× Fatshedera lizei on Scientific Plant Names, Oregon State Univ., Landscape Plants
Strain (bacteria)
Escherichia coli O157:H7 on FDA.gov
E.Coli on BBC news
Misc
Superseded names
Tringa bartramia superseded by Bartramia longicauda on West Midland Bird Club's Upland Sandpiper article
GUID
NBN Taxon Key for European Otter, Lutra lutra, on NBN Species Dictionary: NBNSYS0000005133
LSID (Life Science Indicator) for Popillia japonica on uBio: urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:3377001
Wikipedia
Black-tailed Godwit on Wikipedia: Black-tailed Godwit
Wikipedia uses several sets of markup, e.g. (in-line styles and links, plus some other markup, removed, for clarity):
<p>The <b>Black-tailed Godwit</b>, <i>Limosa limosa</i>
and:
<tr> <td>Kingdom:</td> <td>Animalia</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Phylum:</td> <td>Chordata</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Class:</td> <td>Aves</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Order:</td> <td>Charadriiformes</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Family:</td> <td>Scolopacidae</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Genus:</td> <td>Limosa</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Species:</td> <td>L. limosa</td> </tr> <tr> <th>binominal name</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Limosa limosa</i> <td>(Linnaeus, 1758)</td> </tr>
Quantitative evidence
For evidence of quantitative, rather than qualitative, use of species' and other taxonomic names, see [3] and [4]. Furthermore:
- Wikipedia:
- All species articles, e.g. Little Ringed Plover (see above)
- All genera articles, e.g. Charadrius (Plover)
- All higher classes, e.g. Charadriidae
- All regional lists, e.g. List of British birds
- All dedicatees, e.g. Alexander Wilson
- All authorities, e.g. Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
- All images of living things, e.g. Charadrius dubius 4 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg
- Many reserves, lakes, and other places of interest, e.g. Belvide
- Many biological authors and illustrators, e.g. John Audubon; Gilbert White
- Random articles on other topics, e.g. Balancing lake}
- All the above, again, for each alternative language e.g. Welsh; French; Chinese
- Wikimedia Commons
- All species indexes, e.g. Charadrius dubius
- Each individual image, e.g. Charadrius dubius 1 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg
- Each family list Charadriidae
- Wiktionary
- All species articles, e.g. American Golden Plover
- All family articles, e.g. Plover
- Many of the above, in other langauges e.g. Italian; Russian
- Wikispecies
- Every speices, e.g. Charadrius dubius
- Every genus, e.g. Charadrius
- Every sub-family, e.g. Charadriinae
- Every family, e.g. Charadriidae
- and so on, for every other rank
- Every image (e.g. Charadrius hiaticula He.jpg
- Google
- Google finds about 37,600,000 for "E coli".
- Google finds about 14,200,000 for "Homo sapiens"
- Google finds about 1,260,000 for ""Homo erectus"
- Google finds about 1,380,000 for "Clostridium difficile".
- Google finds about 841,000 for "Passer domesticus".
- Google finds about 602,000 for "Acer palmatum"
- At the time of writing, every single one of the first 20 Google results for "Noctule Bat" also includes the scientific name Nyctalus noctula.
- ARKive - 2000 species ("It is ARKive's current aim to compile audio-visual records, where such media exists, for the 15,000-plus species currently threatened with extinction, according to the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.")
- Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Plant Finder - 70,000 plants
- List of Prokaryotic Names (formerly List of Bacterial Names) - 2,032 *files*; 10,268 published names (to 2006-09-07)
- UK National Biodiversity Network Gateway - 20 million+ species records
- Species 2000 - 450,000 species
- BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide - 53,000 images depicting 4,600 species (see Wiki comments from site owner)
- Animal Diversity Web - "Thousands of species accounts [plus] descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups"
- uBio
- NameBank is a repository of millions of recorded biological names and facts that link those names together.
- ClassificationBank stores multiple classifications and taxonomic concepts that are the result of expert opinions. It extends the functionality of NameBank.
- BirdLife International - all birds of the world (~10,000)
- Bug Guide - all insects, spiders, and allies, of the USA and Canada (most with more than one page).
- Discover Life - "contains 306,553 species. The Polistes Foundation and its scientific partners plan to add high-quality identification guides, maps, images, and text for a million species by 2012. [...] Each month Discover Life serves approximately 3 million pages and images to 70,000 IP addresses"
- rECOrd (the Local Biological Records Centre serving the Cheshire region of England) - 1.6 million species records available online for the public to search and map
Planned sites
- Herbaria United (part of The website of the Botanical Collection Managers Group (BCMG), a specialist group of the Linnean Society of London) - "The UK has the world's largest and oldest collections of herbarium specimens held in trust by museums and universities. A new project is just getting underway to put all this online."
Notable websites
These high-profile websites use species names
- Amazon
- Encyclopaedia Britannica - all species, e.g.
- Flickr
- Tag for moth genera 'citheronia'
- Field Guide: Birds of the World 23,073 tagged photos, as at 2006-10-21
- The Guardian
- The call of the wildlife
- Sparrow joins 'raped' duck in Dutch museum (note improper capitalisation "passer domesticus")
- London Zoo
- Microsoft
- MSN-Encarta - all species, e.g.
- MySpace
- Nature
- Nature Network, Boston
- The student and the squid N.B. site already supports rel-tag, hCard for user profiles and hCalendar for marking up events across the site.
- NASA
- SP-401 Skylab, Classroom in Space. Part II - Student Experiments ("The common Cross spider (Araneus diadematus)")
- New York Times
- Snopes (Urban Legends Reference Pages)
- United Kingdom Government
- United States of America Government
- ITIS, e.g. Passer Domesticus - "authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world"
- Yahoo Groups
- passerdomesticus species as group name!
Breaking news
- BBC News: Stunning new orchids from Asia's rainforest - 2006-10-16
- BBC News: Winter home find cheers twitchers (winter home of the northern bald ibis found) - 2006-10-13
- BBC News: New mouse find is 'living fossil' - 2006-10-12
- BBC News: Giant camel fossil found in Syria - 2006-10-10
- BBC News: Sharks swim into political waters - 2006-10-06
- BBC News: 'Monster' fossil find in Arctic - 2006-10-05
Use in blogs
- Technorati search for "Passer domesticus" (367 found, as at 2006-09-25)
- Technorati search for "Acer palmatum" (682 found, as at 2006-09-25)
- Technorati search for "Homo sapiens" (40,932 found, as at 2006-09-25)
- Technorati search for "birding" (26,472 found, as at 2006-09-25)
- Ramblings of a Naturalist
- The Square Metre
- Windowbox Wildlife
- RXWildlife
And finally...
Gary Larson, in his book The Far Side Gallery (Warner Books, 1980, ISBN 0751502367) has a cartoon, showing two entomologists sitting down to eat dinner in a jungle. One says to the other "Hey! What's this Drosophila melanogaster doing in my soup?"
Grouped By Publisher
West Midland Bird Club
<b class="bird">Black-tailed Godwit</b>
<td>Limosa limosa</td>
species.mediawiki.org
species.mediawiki.org media bird .
<dd>Regnum: <a href="/wiki/Animalia" title="Animalia">Animalia</a> (Metazoa) <dl> <dd>Subregnum: <a href="/wiki/Eumetazoa" title="Eumetazoa">Eumetazoa</a> <dl> <dd>Superphylum: Bilateria: <a href="/wiki/Deuterostomia" title="Deuterostomia">Deuterostomia</a> <dl> <dd>Phylum: <a href="/wiki/Chordata" title="Chordata">Chordata</a> <dl> <dd>Subphylum: <a href="/wiki/Vertebrata" title="Vertebrata">Vertebrata</a> <dl> <dd>Classis: <a href="/wiki/Aves" title="Aves">Aves</a> <dl> <dd>Subclassis: <a href="/wiki/Neognathae" title="Neognathae">Neognathae</a> <dl> <dd>Ordo: <a href="/wiki/Charadriiformes" title="Charadriiformes">Charadriiformes</a> <dl> <dd>Subordo: <a href="/wiki/Charadrii" title="Charadrii">Charadrii</a> <dl> <dd>Familia: <a href="/wiki/Charadriidae" title="Charadriidae">Charadriidae</a> <dl> <dd>Subfamily: <a href="/wiki/Charadriinae" title="Charadriinae">Charadriinae</a> <dl> <dd>Genus: <i><a href="/wiki/Charadrius" title="Charadrius">Charadrius</a></i> <dl> <dd>Species: <i><strong class="selflink">Charadrius dubius</strong></i> <dl> <dd>Subspecies: <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charadrius_dubius_curonicus&action=edit" class="new" title="Charadrius dubius curonicus">C. d. curonicus</a></i> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charadrius_dubius_dubius&action=edit" class="new" title="Charadrius dubius dubius">C. d. dubius</a></i> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charadrius_dubius_jerdoni&action=edit" class="new" title="Charadrius dubius jerdoni">C. d. jerdoni</a></i> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charadrius_dubius_papuanus&action=edit" class="new" title="Charadrius dubius papuanus">C. d. papuanus</a></i></dd> ...
- Comments
- This feels similar to tagging to me. This particular example has a resolves the whole heirarchy, correct? BenWest 17:57, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
- In what way is it similar to tagging? Your question cannot be parsed. AndyMabbett 04:10, 22 Oct 2006 (PDT)
- This feels similar to tagging to me. This particular example has a resolves the whole heirarchy, correct? BenWest 17:57, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
International Wolf Center
- Comments
- The word "wolf" appears all over, a brief look only revealed "delist
wolves" as more resolution in some free text. Is this a good example of how species data is marked up on the web? BenWest 22:20, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
<h1 class="last">Northern pike</h1>
Pike & Zander
The Pike is known worldwide, a species of the family Esocidae...
In Europe and Asia, Esox lucius had to...
- Comments
- Free text, in paragraph elements.
funkman.org
Death's Head Hawkmoth Example Free text in paragraph elements.
UK Moths
<i>Acherontia atropos</i>
<div id="title">Sphingidae: Sphinginae</div>
(<i>Solanum tuberosum</i>)
<b>Key to leaf-feeding micro-moth larvae on creeping thistle (<i>Cirsium arvense</i>)</b>
1076 <a href="show.php?bf=1076"><i>Celypha lacunana</i></a>. A very common polyphage, but too many varieties to include.
1380 <a href="show.php?bf=1380"><i>Phlyctaenia perlucidalis</i></a>. No larval description or photographs available Feb. 2004.<br>
814a <i>Scrobipalpa pauperella</i>. No larval description or photographs available Feb. 2004.
- Comments
Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre
include a <strong>White Admiral</strong> (<i>Limenitis camilla</i>), an <i><a href="http://www.britishspiders.org.uk/html/nbn.php?spn=375">Araneus angulatus</a></i>,
All common names are in strong elements, the species is in an italic element, with resolution as link text, which turns out to be a fairly consistent convention on this particular site.
- Comments
- Again, some part of the resolution is the link text to a resource presumably
considered authoritative. Resembles tagging. This particular site also puts common names in a strong tag, with the species in an italic tag.
TODO: remove, or at least
coalesce free text examples. create a commonalities section. BenWest 22:20, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
TODO:
I've been working down the examples list, item by item to
reorganize by publisher, like the other *-examples pages have done. So far,
I've gone from the top of binominals to the top of the Plant section. It's a
Saturday night and time to have some fun so.... If someone continues this work
before I get a chance to continue, please note where you left off. BenWest 22:20, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
Alternative Grouping By Strategy
I'd like to regroup these examples... perhaps by publishing strategy instead of a list of what is being published. Should this be available as an alternate grouping section? In the mean time, a grouping by publisher would help analysis go smoother. BenWest 17:57, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
I looked at several examples. Several of them feel like tagging to me. Should we attempt to note what level or resolution is available in each example?
Tagging
The [wiki media bird example] is particularly interesting.
<dd>Regnum: <a href="/wiki/Animalia" title="Animalia">Animalia</a> (Metazoa) <dl> <dd>Subregnum: <a href="/wiki/Eumetazoa" title="Eumetazoa">Eumetazoa</a> <dl> <dd>Superphylum: Bilateria: <a href="/wiki/Deuterostomia" title="Deuterostomia">Deuterostomia</a> <dl> <dd>Phylum: <a href="/wiki/Chordata" title="Chordata">Chordata</a> <dl> <dd>Subphylum: <a href="/wiki/Vertebrata" title="Vertebrata">Vertebrata</a> <dl> <dd>Classis: <a href="/wiki/Aves" title="Aves">Aves</a> <dl> <dd>Subclassis: <a href="/wiki/Neognathae" title="Neognathae">Neognathae</a> <dl> <dd>Ordo: <a href="/wiki/Charadriiformes" title="Charadriiformes">Charadriiformes</a> <dl> <dd>Subordo: <a href="/wiki/Charadrii" title="Charadrii">Charadrii</a> <dl> <dd>Familia: <a href="/wiki/Charadriidae" title="Charadriidae">Charadriidae</a> <dl> <dd>Subfamily: <a href="/wiki/Charadriinae" title="Charadriinae">Charadriinae</a> <dl> <dd>Genus: <i><a href="/wiki/Charadrius" title="Charadrius">Charadrius</a></i> <dl> <dd>Species: <i><strong class="selflink">Charadrius dubius</strong></i> <dl> <dd>Subspecies: <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charadrius_dubius_curonicus&action=edit" class="new" title="Charadrius dubius curonicus">C. d. curonicus</a></i> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charadrius_dubius_dubius&action=edit" class="new" title="Charadrius dubius dubius">C. d. dubius</a></i> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charadrius_dubius_jerdoni&action=edit" class="new" title="Charadrius dubius jerdoni">C. d. jerdoni</a></i> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charadrius_dubius_papuanus&action=edit" class="new" title="Charadrius dubius papuanus">C. d. papuanus</a></i></dd> ...
This feels similar to tagging to me. This particular example has a resolves the whole heirarchy, correct? BenWest 17:57, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
Contributors
- Andy Mabbett (proponent)
- Malcolm Storey (per e-mail)
- Charles Roper, Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre (proponent)
- Steve McWilliam, rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information System for the Cheshire region (proponent)