species-examples
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.
Binomials
Birds
Black-tailed Godwit on West Midland Bird Club's Ladywalk reserve latest news page
Limosa limosa on West Midland Bird Club's county lists'
Mammal
Wolf on International Wolf Center
Canis lupus on NPS.gov
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
Plant
Bog Pimpernel on Map Reading's Wildflower Images
Anagallis tenella on BioImages
Funghi
Amanita muscaria on California Funghi
Fly Agaric on Trees for Life
More than binomials
Authority
Pica pica Linnaeus, (1758) on Wikpedia
- (i.e. named by Linnaeus in 1758)
Unsepcified species
Podiceps sp. on Bird Life
<i>Podiceps</i> sp.
Sub-species
Animal
Larus glaucoides kumlieni on BirdGuides
Kumlien's Gull on Birds Ireland
Plant
Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum on [1] (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
<dd><i>Chamaecyparis lawsoniana</i> 'Aureomarginata'</dd>
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Golden Wonder' on plantago.nl
Cultivar groups (plant)
Brassica oleracea Botrytis Group on Wikipedia
Trade names (plant)
Rosa Peace on Wikipedia
- ("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 aka Acanthocalycium spiniflorum forma klimpelianum on Wikipedia
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
References
- Wikipedia: Scientific classification
- Wikipedia: Binomial nomenclature
- Wikipedia: Trinomial nomenclature
- Wikipedia: Cultivars
- Wikipedia: Varieties
- Wikipedia: Sub-varieties
- Wikipedia: forms
- http://www.iczn.org/ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature