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User:SteveMcBill

2009-02-04T21:19:20Z

SteveMcBill:

==My Background==

I have been 'interested' in wildlife since I was 4 years old but my interest did not become 'serious' until I reached 30 when I joined the [http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/rECOrd.aspx?Mod=Article&ArticleID=G00110001 Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society].

Work wise - I started in the lab of a hospital (Whiston - in Merseyside) and then moved to chemical research (Croda). Following this I worked with the Department of Employment as a programmer for 25 years (much of it managing IT projects for the Dept.) - it was virtually all mainframe in Cobol, Plan, Fortran, Filetab and a few other languages.

Home IT interest led me into music and graphics programming for fun (Atari Basic and 6502 Assembler) and thence to developing the initial website for the Cheshire Wildlife Trust during a boring Xmas period in 1996.

Since October 2000 I have managed the local biodiversity records center for the Cheshire region - [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd]. As at October 2006 we have 1.6 million species records available on-line for the public to search and map.

Who knows what will happen for/to me from here on in ?? Well, the answer was leaving rECOrd in May 2007 due to health reasons (a small stroke). Cest la vie !!

==My Major Interests==

- General Entomology
- Symphyta (Sawflies)
- Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
- Lepidoptera (Moths & Butterflies)
- Invertebrate Survey
- Terrestrial Mollusca
- Identification
- Survey
- Micro-fungi
- Identification
- Survey
- Photography (mainly digital nowadays)
- Natural History photography for website usage
- Photography for sale on Micro-Stock Sites
- Ragtime and Country Blues Acoustic Guitar
- Playing - especially steel-strung flat-tops
- Listening to old Country Blues players (e.g. Blind Blake, etc.)
- Information Technology (IT)
- Website design and implementation
- Database design
- Making use of accumulated data
- Making use of the technology to allow simple use of the data
- IT standards across the web and in other areas
- Mechanisms for collation and collection of biodiversity data over the web.

User:SteveMcBill

2006-10-07T10:38:36Z

SteveMcBill: /* My Interests */

==My Background==

I have been 'interested' in wildlife since I was 4 years old but my interest did not become 'serious' until I reached 30 when I joined the [http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/entomol/lces/ Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society].

Work wise - I started in the lab of a hospital and then moved to chemical research. Following this I worked with the Department of Employment as a programmer for 25 years (much of it managing IT projects for the Dept.) - it was virtually all mainframe in Cobol, Plan, Fortran, Filetab and a few other languages.

Home IT interest led me into music and graphics programming for fun and thence to developing the initial website for the Cheshire Wildlife Trust during a boring Xmas period in 1996.

Since October 2000 I have managed the local biodiversity records centre for the Cheshire region - [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd]. As at October 2006 we have 1.6 million species records available online for the public to search and map.

Who knows what will happen for/to me from here on in ??

==My Major Interests==

- General Entomology
- Symphyta (Sawflies)
- Carabidae
- Invertebrate Survey
- Terrestrial Mollusca
- Identification
- Survey
- Micro-fungi
- Identification
- Survey
- Photography (mainly digital nowadays)
- Natural History photography for website usage
- Photography for sale on Micro-Stock Sites
- Ragtime and Country Blues Acoustic Guitar
- Playing - especially steel-strung flat-tops
- Listening to old Country Blues players (e.g. Blind Blake, etc.)
- Information Technology (IT)
- Website design and implementation
- Database design
- Making use of accumualted data
- Making use of the technology to allow simple use of the data
- IT standards across the web and in other areas.

User:SteveMcBill

2006-10-07T10:36:14Z

SteveMcBill: /* My Interests */

==My Background==

I have been 'interested' in wildlife since I was 4 years old but my interest did not become 'serious' until I reached 30 when I joined the [http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/entomol/lces/ Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society].

Work wise - I started in the lab of a hospital and then moved to chemical research. Following this I worked with the Department of Employment as a programmer for 25 years (much of it managing IT projects for the Dept.) - it was virtually all mainframe in Cobol, Plan, Fortran, Filetab and a few other languages.

Home IT interest led me into music and graphics programming for fun and thence to developing the initial website for the Cheshire Wildlife Trust during a boring Xmas period in 1996.

Since October 2000 I have managed the local biodiversity records centre for the Cheshire region - [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd]. As at October 2006 we have 1.6 million species records available online for the public to search and map.

Who knows what will happen for/to me from here on in ??

==My Interests==

- General Entomology
- Symphyta (Sawflies)
- Carabidae
- Invertebrate Survey
- Terrestrial Mollusca
- Identification
- Survey
- Micro-fungi
- Identification
- Survey
- Photography (mainly digital nowadays)
- Natural History photography for website usage
- Photography for sale on Micro-Stock Sites
- Ragtime and Country Blues Acoustic Guitar
- Playing - especially steel-strung flat-tops
- Listening to old Country Blues players (e.g. Blind Blake, etc.)

User:SteveMcBill

2006-10-07T10:33:07Z

SteveMcBill: /* My Background */

==My Background==

I have been 'interested' in wildlife since I was 4 years old but my interest did not become 'serious' until I reached 30 when I joined the [http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/entomol/lces/ Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society].

Work wise - I started in the lab of a hospital and then moved to chemical research. Following this I worked with the Department of Employment as a programmer for 25 years (much of it managing IT projects for the Dept.) - it was virtually all mainframe in Cobol, Plan, Fortran, Filetab and a few other languages.

Home IT interest led me into music and graphics programming for fun and thence to developing the initial website for the Cheshire Wildlife Trust during a boring Xmas period in 1996.

Since October 2000 I have managed the local biodiversity records centre for the Cheshire region - [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd]. As at October 2006 we have 1.6 million species records available online for the public to search and map.

Who knows what will happen for/to me from here on in ??

==My Interests==

- General Entomology
- Symphyta (Sawflies)
- Carabidae
- Terrestrial Mollusca
- Micro-fungi
- Photography (mainly digital nowadays)
- Ragtime and Country Blues Acoustic Guitar

User:SteveMcBill

2006-10-07T10:26:49Z

SteveMcBill: /* My Background */

User:SteveMcBill

2006-10-07T10:25:05Z

SteveMcBill:

==My Background==

I have been 'interested' in wildlife since I was 4 years old but my interest did not become 'serious' until I reached 30 when I joined the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society.

Work wise - I started in the lab of a hospital and then moved to chemical research. Following this I worked with the Department of Employment as a programmer for 25 years (much of it managing IT projects for the Dept.) - it was virtually all mainframe in Cobol, Plan, Fortran, Filetab and a few other languages.

Home IT interest led me into music and graphics programming for fun and thence to developing the initial website for the Cheshire Wildlife Trust during a boring Xmas period in 1996.

Since October 2000 I have managed the local biodiversity records centre for the Cheshire region - [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd]. As at Ocotber 2006 we have 1.6 million species records available online for the public to search and map.

Who knows what will happen for/to me from here on in ??

species

2006-10-07T10:11:34Z

SteveMcBill: /* Contributors */

=Species=

:'''For the latest ideas, and to make comments, please see [[species-brainstorming]].'''

==Introduction==

People use the vernacular AND taxonomic names of species in everyday speech and writing - just read or watch any populist gardening magazine or television programme.

Consider this list: "'''Blackbird'''", "'''poodle'''", "'''T Rex'''", "'''potato'''", "'''French Marigold'''", "'''Wisteria'''", "'''E. Coli'''", "'''HIV'''", "'''Rubella'''" and "'''human being'''".

"'''T Rex'''" is "''Tyrannosaurus rex''"; "'''E. Coli'''" is "''Escherichia coli''"; "'''HIV'''" is "''Human immunodeficiency virus''" and "'''Rubella'''" is "''Rubella virus''". All are the taxonomic (or scientific) names of unique species.

"'''''Wisteria'''''" is a taxonomic genus.

"'''Blackbird'''"; "'''poodle'''"; "'''potato'''"; "'''French Marigold'''" and "'''human being'''" (arguments about Neanderthals not withstanding) are vernacular (or common) names, but still refer to individual species.

The scientific naming of organisms is a part of [http://www.calacademy.org/research/informatics/sblum/pub/biodiv_informatics.html biodiversity informatics] - "the application of information technology to the domain of biodiversity".

==Proposal==
Imagine viewing a web page with a reference to a species - and being able to use an add-on to you browser to be taken directly to information about that species, on, say, Wikipedia, or Wikispecies, or Google Images, or another site, such as in an academic database, of your choosing.

Your software would automatically know to search site A if the scientific name referred to a moth, site B for a bird, and site C for a plant - and you could set your preferences as to which sites those were to be, and in which order two or more were to be searched (e.g. for moths, try [http://ukmoths.org.uk/ UK Moths] first, if not found try [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/lepindex/index.html The Global Lepidoptera Names Index]).

Or supposing someone writes a long, chronologically-ordered web page about all the birds, insects, mammals and plants they saw on a wildlife safari, with lots of prose description about the paces where they saw them and the people they were with, but you want to extract a list of species, sorted into alphabetical order within taxonomic class (birds first, then insects then...) or in taxonomic order.

Those are just two of the things a "species" microformat might do for you.

==Existing taxonomies==
The proposal respects all existing biological taxonomies, and is not intended to change or supplant any of them - it is intended merely to provide webmasters (from personal hobby sites to major academic databases; from news outlets to retail organisations) with a method of either:

# marking-up a taxonomical name (or taxon-common name pair) in such a way that its components can be recognised by computers '''or'''
# marking up a common name, so as to associate with it a taxonomical name, in such a way that the latter's components can be recognised by computers.

==Embedding within other microformats==
The proposed [[plant]] microformat (with care regime, supplier, etc.), [[hlisting]] or [[hReview]] (and possibly others) could contain a scientific name microformat, in the same way that an [[hCalendar]] can contain an [[hCard]].

See also: [[species-brainstorming#Future development]]

==References==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_classification Wikipedia: Scientific classification]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature Wikipedia: Binomial nomenclature]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinomial_nomenclature Wikipedia: Trinomial nomenclature]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxon Wikipedia: Taxon]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivars]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_%28biology%29 Wikipedia: Varieties]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvariety Wikipedia: Sub-varieties]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28botany%29 Wikipedia: forms]
*[http://www.iczn.org/ http://www.iczn.org/ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature Wikipedia: International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]
*[http://www.iczn.org/ International Code of Botanical Nomenclature]
*[http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantnaming.asp RHS Plant Finder: The naming of plants]
*[http://www.ishs.org/sci/icracpco.htm International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants]
*[http://www.tdwg.org/index.html Taxonomic Databases Working Group]
*[http://www.hortax.org.uk/ Hortax] - The Names of Garden Plants
*[http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm]
*[http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiSpecies]
*[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taxonomy Wiktionary: Taxonomy]
*[http://jbi.nhm.ku.edu/index.php/jbi/article/view/25 Biodiversity Informatics: Taxonomic names, metadata, and the Semantic Web]

==Contributors==
*[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] (proponent)
*[[User:RogerHyam|Roger Hyam]] (interested party?)
*[[User:SXBRC|Charles Roper]], [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/ Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (proponent)
*[[User:SteveMcBill|Steve McWilliam]], [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information System for the Cheshire region] (proponent)

==See also==
Here's some work-in-progress:

*[[species-examples]]
*[[species-brainstorming]]

species-examples

2006-10-07T09:55:37Z

SteveMcBill: /* Contributors */

=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.

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==binominals==

===Birds===

'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ladywalk/latest.htm West Midland Bird Club's Ladywalk reserve latest news page]

<pre><nowiki>Black-tailed Godwit</nowiki></pre>

'''''Limosa limosa''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/records/lists.htm West Midland Bird Club's county lists']

<pre><nowiki><td>Limosa limosa</td></nowiki></pre>

===Mammal===
'''Wolf''' on [http://www.wolf.org/wolves/index.asp International Wolf Center]

'''''Canis lupus''''' on [http://www.nps.gov/archive/bela/html/wolves.htm NPS.gov]

===Fish===
'''Northern pike''' on [http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish/northern/index.html Minnesota Department of Natural Resources]

'''''Esox lucius''''' on [http://www.pikezander.co.uk/pike.htm Pike & Zander]

===Insect===
'''Death’s Head Hawkmoth''' on [http://funkman.org/animal/insect/deathheadmoth.html Animal Teachers]

'''''Acherontia atropos''''' on [http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2540 UK Moths]

'''Migrant Hawker''' (''Aeshna mixta'') on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

'''Sloe Bug''' (''Dolycoris baccarum'') on [http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/?Mod=Forum&Do=ViewThread&ForumID=31&ThreadID=101 rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information Centre for the Cheshire region]

===Arachnid===
'''Tarantulas''' on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''Costa Rican zebra tarantula''' (''Aphonopelma seemanni'') on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''''Araneus angulatus''''' on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

===Plant===
'''Bog Pimpernel''' on [http://www.map-reading.co.uk/wildflowers/HTML%20files/f0219.htm Map Reading's Wildflower Images]

'''''Anagallis tenella''''' on [http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T47624.HTM BioImages]

'''''Persicaria campanulatum''''' on [http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/?Mod=Forum&Do=ViewThread&ForumID=6&ThreadID=75 rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information Centre for the Cheshire region]

===Fungi===

'''''Amanita muscaria''''' on [http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Amanita_muscaria.html California Fungi]
* as '''''Amanita muscaria'' (L. per Fr.) Hooker'''
* as '''''Amanita muscaria var. flavivolvata'''''

'''Fly Agaric''' on [http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/mythfolk/flyagaric.html Trees for Life]

'''''Rhodocollybia maculata'' (Albertini & Schweinitz: Fries) Singer''' on [http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Taxa/Rhodomacul540.html]
*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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Magpie Wikipedia: European Magpie]
:(i.e. named by Linnaeus in 1758)

===Unspecified species===
'''''Podiceps sp.''''' on [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3644&m=0 Bird Life] <pre><nowiki>Podiceps sp.</nowiki></pre>

'''Psyllid plant hopper''' [http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/2006/07/bay-sucker-gall-trioza-alacris.html on Ramblings of a Naturalist blog]

===Sub-species===

====Animal====
'''''Larus glaucoides kumlieni''' on [http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Larus_glaucoides_kumlieni.htm BirdGuides]

'''Kumlien's Gull''' on [http://www.birdsireland.com/pages/rare_bird_news/2005/january_photos.html Birds Ireland]

====Plant====
'''''Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum''''' on [http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Pisum.html] (also has other examples; note lack of required italics)
<pre><nowiki>Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum</nowiki></pre>

===Cultivars (plant)===
'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

<pre><nowiki><dd>Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'</dd></nowiki></pre>

'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana'' 'Golden Wonder'''' on [http://www.plantago.nl/plantindex/c/Chamaecyparis/Chamaecyparis_4.htm plantago.nl]

====Cultivar groups (plant)====
'''''Brassica oleracea'' Botrytis Group''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

===Trade names (plant)===

'''''Rosa'' Peace''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar 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 [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]

'''Sunflower 'Infrared' F1''' on [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]
:(Note "F1" cross designation)

===Variety (plant)===
'''''Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon''''' on [http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/8/index.html Dave's Garden]

====Sub-variety (plant)====

'''''Betula ermani var. genuina subvar. brevidentata''''' on [http://www.nccpg.com/gloucestershire/wilson1.html National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, Gloucestershire Group] (plus many other examples)

===Form (plant)===

'''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum f. klimpelianum''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28botany%29 Wikipedia: form (botany)]
*aka '''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum forma klimpelianum'''''

===Sense (plant)===
'''''Ranunculus aquatilis s.l.''''' and '''''R. aquatilis s.s'''''; on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/blithfield/plants20060815.htm Blithfield Reservoir: Survey of Flowering Plants...] (see also footnotes on that page)

===Cross (plant)===
'''''Digitalis x mertonensis''''' on [http://www.hortax.org.uk/gardenplantsnames.html 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 [http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/sci-names.htm Scientific Plant Names, Oregon State Univ., Landscape Plants]

===Strain (bacteria)===
'''''Escherichia coli O157:H7''''' on [http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap15.html FDA.gov]

'''''E.Coli''''' on [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5346842.stm BBC news]

==Misc==
===Superseded names===
'''''Tringa bartramia''''' superseded by '''''Bartramia longicauda''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/firsts/UPLSA.htm West Midland Bird Club's Upland Sandpiper article]

===GUID===
'''NBN Taxon Key: NBNSYS0000005133''' for European Otter, ''Lutra lutra'', on [http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/bin/nbntaxa.dll/taxon_details?taxon_key=NBNSYS0000005133 NBN Species Dictionary]

===Wikipedia===
'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_Godwit Wikipedia: Black-tailed Godwit]

Wikipedia uses several sets of markup, e.g. (in-line styles and links, plus some other markup, removed, for clarity):

<pre><nowiki>The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa</nowiki></pre>

and:

<pre><nowiki>
<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
<td>(Linnaeus, 1758)</td>
</tr>
</nowiki></pre>

==Quantitative evidence==

For evidence of quantitative, rather than qualitative, use of species' and other taxonomic names, see [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005790.html] and [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005791.html]. Furthermore:

*Wikipedia:
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ringed_Plover Little Ringed Plover] (see [[species-examples#Wikipedia|above]])
** '''All''' genera articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plover Charadrius (Plover)]
** '''All''' higher classes, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** '''All''' regional lists, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_birds:_non-passerines List of British birds]
** '''All''' dedicatees, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wilson Alexander Wilson]
** '''All''' authorities, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Antonio_Scopoli Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]
** '''All''' images of living things, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_4_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 4 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** Many reserves, lakes, and other places of interest, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvide Belvide]
** Many biological authors and illustrators, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Audubon John Audubon]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_White Gilbert White]
** Random articles on other topics, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_lake Balancing lake}]
** '''All the above, again''', for each alternative language e.g. [http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwtiad_Torchog_Bach Welsh]; [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_gravelot French]; [http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%9C%B6%E9%B8%BB Chinese]

*Wikimedia Commons
** '''All''' species indexes, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Each individual''' image, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_1_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 1 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** '''Each family''' list [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]

*Wiktionary
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/american_golden_plover American Golden Plover]
** '''All''' family articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plover Plover]
** '''Many of the above, in other langauges''' e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aquila_reale Italian]; [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82 Russian]

*Wikispecies
** '''Every''' speices, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Every''' genus, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius Charadrius]
** '''Every''' sub-family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriinae Charadriinae]
** '''Every''' family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** and so on, for '''every other rank'''
** '''Every''' image (e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_hiaticula_He.jpg Charadrius hiaticula He.jpg]

*Google
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=dBU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22E+coli%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''37,600,000''' for "E coli"].
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=Apo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Escherichia+coli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''19,500,000''' for "Escherichia coli"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=zqo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Ecoli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''722,000''' for "Ecoli"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapiens%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''14,200,000''' for "Homo sapiens"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapien%22+-sapiens&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''273,000''' for the mis-spelling "Homo sapien" -sapiens.]
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22%22Homo+erectus%22%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Google finds about '''1,260,000''' for ""Homo erectus"]
**[http://www.google.com/search?svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&edition=us&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=9&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=10&q=%22Clostridium+difficile%22&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nw Google finds about '''1,380,000''' for "Clostridium difficile"].
**[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer+domesticus%22&btnG=Search Google finds about '''841,000''' for "Passer domesticus"].
***[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer%20domesticus%22&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=wi Google images finds about '''3,140''' for "Passer domesticus"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=oEU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22Acer+palmatum%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''602,000''' for "Acer palmatum"]
** At the time of writing, '''every single one''' of the first 20 [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Noctule+bat%22 Google results for "Noctule Bat"] also includes the scientific name ''Nyctalus noctula''.

*[http://www.arkive.org/ 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.")

*[http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder.asp Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Plant Finder] - '''70,000''' plants

*[http://www.bacterio.net List of Prokaryotic Names (formerly List of Bacterial Names)] - 2,032 *files*; '''10,268''' published names (to 2006-09-07)

*[http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/ UK National Biodiversity Network's Species Dictionary]

*[http://www.searchnbn.net/ UK National Biodiversity Network Gateway] - '''20 million+''' species records

*[http://www.sp2000.org/ Species 2000] - '''450,000 species'''

*[http://www.bioimages.org.uk/index.html BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide] - '''53,000''' images depicting 4,600 species (see [[species-brainstorming#Malcolm_Storey|Wiki comments from site owner]])

*[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/ 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"

* [http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=home 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.

*[http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/ BirdLife International] - all birds of the world (~'''10,000''')

*[http://bugguide.net/ Bug Guide] - all insects, spiders, and allies, of the USA and Canada (most with more than one page).
** e.g. [http://bugguide.net/node/view/70875 Arge pectoralis - Birch Sawfly]

*[http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/ BirdTrack]
**[http://blx1.bto.org/bt-dailyresults/results/s171-20-06.html Lapwing]

*[http://www.discoverlife.org/ 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"

===Planned sites===
*[http://herbariaunited.org/atHome/ 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
**[http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22house+sparrow%22 search for "House Sparrow"]

*BBC News
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4835208.stm Fewer birds spotted in UK gardens]
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4743250.stm Study to solve sparrow's decline riddle]

*Encyclopaedia Britannica - all species, e.g.
**[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9379473/starling Starling]

*Flickr
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/citheronia/ Tag for moth genera 'citheronia']
***[http://www.flickr.com/photos/30268343@N00/152101772/ Sample result from that search]

*CNN
**[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/NATURE/01/24/dying.eagles/ Disease threatens bald eagle population]

*eBay
**[http://search.ebay.com/house-sparrow search for "House Sparrow"]

*The Guardian
**[http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1878956,00.html The call of the wildlife]
**[http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1665396,00.html Sparrow joins 'raped' duck in Dutch museum] (note improper capitalisation "''passer domesticus''")

*London Zoo
**[http://www.zsl.org/london-zoo/animals/birds/tawny-frogmouth,99,AN.html Tawny frogmouth]

*Microsoft
**[http://www.microsoft.com/games/zootycoon/zoo2/zoo2_ymi_animals1.asp Zoo Tycoon]

*MSN-Encarta - all species, e.g.
**[http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=vulgaris&Submit2=Go Search for "vulgaris"]

*MySpace
**[http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=47134278&blogID=79591637]

*Nature
**[http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/avianflu/index.html Avian flu web focus]

*NASA
**[http://history.nasa.gov/SP-401/ch3.htm SP-401 Skylab, Classroom in Space. Part II - Student Experiments] ("The common Cross spider (Araneus diadematus)")

*New York Times
**[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9D04E4DE1131F93BA25751C0A9669C8B63 Where the Eagles Fly: Seeing the National Symbol]

*Snopes (Urban Legends Reference Pages)
**[http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fishfly.asp Fish Fly]

*United Kingdom Government
**[http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/vertebrates/gen-licence.htm DEFRA: General licences under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981]

*United States of America Government
**ITIS, e.g. [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=179628 Passer Domesticus] - "authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world"

*W3C
**[http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2000/10/swap/test/ferrell/biology.n3?rev=1.4 An Ontology of Biology]
**[http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Tasks/Reagents/Status_Reports/2006-05-04 BioRDF Sub-group Status Report, 4 May 2006]

*Yahoo Groups
**[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/passerdomesticus/ passerdomesticus] species as group name!

==Breaking news==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5414410.stm BBC News: Sharks swim into political waters] - 2006-10-06
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5403570.stm BBC News: 'Monster' fossil find in Arctic] - 2006-10-05

==Use in blogs==
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22passer%20domesticus%22 Technorati search for "Passer domesticus"] (367 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22acer%20palmatum%22 Technorati search for "Acer palmatum"] (682 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22Homo%20sapiens%22 Technorati search for "Homo sapiens"] (40,932 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/birding Technorati search for "birding"] (26,472 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/ Ramblings of a Naturalist]
*[http://squaremetre1.blogspot.com/ The Square Metre]
*[http://windowboxwildlife.blogspot.com/index.html Windowbox Wildlife]
*[http://www.rxwildlife.org.uk/ 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?"

==Contributors==
*[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] (proponent)
*Malcolm Storey (per e-mail)
*[[User:SXBRC|Charles Roper]], [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/ Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (proponent)
*[[User:SteveMcBill|Steve McWilliam]], [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information System for the Cheshire region] (proponent)

==See also==
[[species-brainstorming]]

species-examples

2006-10-07T09:53:55Z

SteveMcBill: /* Contributors */

=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.

__TOC__

==binominals==

===Birds===

'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ladywalk/latest.htm West Midland Bird Club's Ladywalk reserve latest news page]

<pre><nowiki>Black-tailed Godwit</nowiki></pre>

'''''Limosa limosa''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/records/lists.htm West Midland Bird Club's county lists']

<pre><nowiki><td>Limosa limosa</td></nowiki></pre>

===Mammal===
'''Wolf''' on [http://www.wolf.org/wolves/index.asp International Wolf Center]

'''''Canis lupus''''' on [http://www.nps.gov/archive/bela/html/wolves.htm NPS.gov]

===Fish===
'''Northern pike''' on [http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish/northern/index.html Minnesota Department of Natural Resources]

'''''Esox lucius''''' on [http://www.pikezander.co.uk/pike.htm Pike & Zander]

===Insect===
'''Death’s Head Hawkmoth''' on [http://funkman.org/animal/insect/deathheadmoth.html Animal Teachers]

'''''Acherontia atropos''''' on [http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2540 UK Moths]

'''Migrant Hawker''' (''Aeshna mixta'') on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

'''Sloe Bug''' (''Dolycoris baccarum'') on [http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/?Mod=Forum&Do=ViewThread&ForumID=31&ThreadID=101 rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information Centre for the Cheshire region]

===Arachnid===
'''Tarantulas''' on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''Costa Rican zebra tarantula''' (''Aphonopelma seemanni'') on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''''Araneus angulatus''''' on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

===Plant===
'''Bog Pimpernel''' on [http://www.map-reading.co.uk/wildflowers/HTML%20files/f0219.htm Map Reading's Wildflower Images]

'''''Anagallis tenella''''' on [http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T47624.HTM BioImages]

'''''Persicaria campanulatum''''' on [http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/?Mod=Forum&Do=ViewThread&ForumID=6&ThreadID=75 rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information Centre for the Cheshire region]

===Fungi===

'''''Amanita muscaria''''' on [http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Amanita_muscaria.html California Fungi]
* as '''''Amanita muscaria'' (L. per Fr.) Hooker'''
* as '''''Amanita muscaria var. flavivolvata'''''

'''Fly Agaric''' on [http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/mythfolk/flyagaric.html Trees for Life]

'''''Rhodocollybia maculata'' (Albertini & Schweinitz: Fries) Singer''' on [http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Taxa/Rhodomacul540.html]
*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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Magpie Wikipedia: European Magpie]
:(i.e. named by Linnaeus in 1758)

===Unspecified species===
'''''Podiceps sp.''''' on [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3644&m=0 Bird Life] <pre><nowiki>Podiceps sp.</nowiki></pre>

'''Psyllid plant hopper''' [http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/2006/07/bay-sucker-gall-trioza-alacris.html on Ramblings of a Naturalist blog]

===Sub-species===

====Animal====
'''''Larus glaucoides kumlieni''' on [http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Larus_glaucoides_kumlieni.htm BirdGuides]

'''Kumlien's Gull''' on [http://www.birdsireland.com/pages/rare_bird_news/2005/january_photos.html Birds Ireland]

====Plant====
'''''Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum''''' on [http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Pisum.html] (also has other examples; note lack of required italics)
<pre><nowiki>Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum</nowiki></pre>

===Cultivars (plant)===
'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

<pre><nowiki><dd>Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'</dd></nowiki></pre>

'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana'' 'Golden Wonder'''' on [http://www.plantago.nl/plantindex/c/Chamaecyparis/Chamaecyparis_4.htm plantago.nl]

====Cultivar groups (plant)====
'''''Brassica oleracea'' Botrytis Group''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

===Trade names (plant)===

'''''Rosa'' Peace''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar 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 [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]

'''Sunflower 'Infrared' F1''' on [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]
:(Note "F1" cross designation)

===Variety (plant)===
'''''Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon''''' on [http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/8/index.html Dave's Garden]

====Sub-variety (plant)====

'''''Betula ermani var. genuina subvar. brevidentata''''' on [http://www.nccpg.com/gloucestershire/wilson1.html National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, Gloucestershire Group] (plus many other examples)

===Form (plant)===

'''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum f. klimpelianum''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28botany%29 Wikipedia: form (botany)]
*aka '''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum forma klimpelianum'''''

===Sense (plant)===
'''''Ranunculus aquatilis s.l.''''' and '''''R. aquatilis s.s'''''; on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/blithfield/plants20060815.htm Blithfield Reservoir: Survey of Flowering Plants...] (see also footnotes on that page)

===Cross (plant)===
'''''Digitalis x mertonensis''''' on [http://www.hortax.org.uk/gardenplantsnames.html 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 [http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/sci-names.htm Scientific Plant Names, Oregon State Univ., Landscape Plants]

===Strain (bacteria)===
'''''Escherichia coli O157:H7''''' on [http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap15.html FDA.gov]

'''''E.Coli''''' on [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5346842.stm BBC news]

==Misc==
===Superseded names===
'''''Tringa bartramia''''' superseded by '''''Bartramia longicauda''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/firsts/UPLSA.htm West Midland Bird Club's Upland Sandpiper article]

===GUID===
'''NBN Taxon Key: NBNSYS0000005133''' for European Otter, ''Lutra lutra'', on [http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/bin/nbntaxa.dll/taxon_details?taxon_key=NBNSYS0000005133 NBN Species Dictionary]

===Wikipedia===
'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_Godwit Wikipedia: Black-tailed Godwit]

Wikipedia uses several sets of markup, e.g. (in-line styles and links, plus some other markup, removed, for clarity):

<pre><nowiki>The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa</nowiki></pre>

and:

<pre><nowiki>
<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
<td>(Linnaeus, 1758)</td>
</tr>
</nowiki></pre>

==Quantitative evidence==

For evidence of quantitative, rather than qualitative, use of species' and other taxonomic names, see [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005790.html] and [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005791.html]. Furthermore:

*Wikipedia:
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ringed_Plover Little Ringed Plover] (see [[species-examples#Wikipedia|above]])
** '''All''' genera articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plover Charadrius (Plover)]
** '''All''' higher classes, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** '''All''' regional lists, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_birds:_non-passerines List of British birds]
** '''All''' dedicatees, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wilson Alexander Wilson]
** '''All''' authorities, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Antonio_Scopoli Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]
** '''All''' images of living things, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_4_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 4 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** Many reserves, lakes, and other places of interest, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvide Belvide]
** Many biological authors and illustrators, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Audubon John Audubon]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_White Gilbert White]
** Random articles on other topics, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_lake Balancing lake}]
** '''All the above, again''', for each alternative language e.g. [http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwtiad_Torchog_Bach Welsh]; [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_gravelot French]; [http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%9C%B6%E9%B8%BB Chinese]

*Wikimedia Commons
** '''All''' species indexes, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Each individual''' image, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_1_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 1 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** '''Each family''' list [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]

*Wiktionary
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/american_golden_plover American Golden Plover]
** '''All''' family articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plover Plover]
** '''Many of the above, in other langauges''' e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aquila_reale Italian]; [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82 Russian]

*Wikispecies
** '''Every''' speices, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Every''' genus, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius Charadrius]
** '''Every''' sub-family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriinae Charadriinae]
** '''Every''' family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** and so on, for '''every other rank'''
** '''Every''' image (e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_hiaticula_He.jpg Charadrius hiaticula He.jpg]

*Google
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=dBU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22E+coli%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''37,600,000''' for "E coli"].
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=Apo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Escherichia+coli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''19,500,000''' for "Escherichia coli"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=zqo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Ecoli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''722,000''' for "Ecoli"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapiens%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''14,200,000''' for "Homo sapiens"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapien%22+-sapiens&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''273,000''' for the mis-spelling "Homo sapien" -sapiens.]
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22%22Homo+erectus%22%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Google finds about '''1,260,000''' for ""Homo erectus"]
**[http://www.google.com/search?svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&edition=us&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=9&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=10&q=%22Clostridium+difficile%22&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nw Google finds about '''1,380,000''' for "Clostridium difficile"].
**[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer+domesticus%22&btnG=Search Google finds about '''841,000''' for "Passer domesticus"].
***[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer%20domesticus%22&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=wi Google images finds about '''3,140''' for "Passer domesticus"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=oEU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22Acer+palmatum%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''602,000''' for "Acer palmatum"]
** At the time of writing, '''every single one''' of the first 20 [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Noctule+bat%22 Google results for "Noctule Bat"] also includes the scientific name ''Nyctalus noctula''.

*[http://www.arkive.org/ 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.")

*[http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder.asp Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Plant Finder] - '''70,000''' plants

*[http://www.bacterio.net List of Prokaryotic Names (formerly List of Bacterial Names)] - 2,032 *files*; '''10,268''' published names (to 2006-09-07)

*[http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/ UK National Biodiversity Network's Species Dictionary]

*[http://www.searchnbn.net/ UK National Biodiversity Network Gateway] - '''20 million+''' species records

*[http://www.sp2000.org/ Species 2000] - '''450,000 species'''

*[http://www.bioimages.org.uk/index.html BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide] - '''53,000''' images depicting 4,600 species (see [[species-brainstorming#Malcolm_Storey|Wiki comments from site owner]])

*[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/ 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"

* [http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=home 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.

*[http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/ BirdLife International] - all birds of the world (~'''10,000''')

*[http://bugguide.net/ Bug Guide] - all insects, spiders, and allies, of the USA and Canada (most with more than one page).
** e.g. [http://bugguide.net/node/view/70875 Arge pectoralis - Birch Sawfly]

*[http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/ BirdTrack]
**[http://blx1.bto.org/bt-dailyresults/results/s171-20-06.html Lapwing]

*[http://www.discoverlife.org/ 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"

===Planned sites===
*[http://herbariaunited.org/atHome/ 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
**[http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22house+sparrow%22 search for "House Sparrow"]

*BBC News
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4835208.stm Fewer birds spotted in UK gardens]
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4743250.stm Study to solve sparrow's decline riddle]

*Encyclopaedia Britannica - all species, e.g.
**[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9379473/starling Starling]

*Flickr
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/citheronia/ Tag for moth genera 'citheronia']
***[http://www.flickr.com/photos/30268343@N00/152101772/ Sample result from that search]

*CNN
**[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/NATURE/01/24/dying.eagles/ Disease threatens bald eagle population]

*eBay
**[http://search.ebay.com/house-sparrow search for "House Sparrow"]

*The Guardian
**[http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1878956,00.html The call of the wildlife]
**[http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1665396,00.html Sparrow joins 'raped' duck in Dutch museum] (note improper capitalisation "''passer domesticus''")

*London Zoo
**[http://www.zsl.org/london-zoo/animals/birds/tawny-frogmouth,99,AN.html Tawny frogmouth]

*Microsoft
**[http://www.microsoft.com/games/zootycoon/zoo2/zoo2_ymi_animals1.asp Zoo Tycoon]

*MSN-Encarta - all species, e.g.
**[http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=vulgaris&Submit2=Go Search for "vulgaris"]

*MySpace
**[http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=47134278&blogID=79591637]

*Nature
**[http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/avianflu/index.html Avian flu web focus]

*NASA
**[http://history.nasa.gov/SP-401/ch3.htm SP-401 Skylab, Classroom in Space. Part II - Student Experiments] ("The common Cross spider (Araneus diadematus)")

*New York Times
**[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9D04E4DE1131F93BA25751C0A9669C8B63 Where the Eagles Fly: Seeing the National Symbol]

*Snopes (Urban Legends Reference Pages)
**[http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fishfly.asp Fish Fly]

*United Kingdom Government
**[http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/vertebrates/gen-licence.htm DEFRA: General licences under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981]

*United States of America Government
**ITIS, e.g. [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=179628 Passer Domesticus] - "authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world"

*W3C
**[http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2000/10/swap/test/ferrell/biology.n3?rev=1.4 An Ontology of Biology]
**[http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Tasks/Reagents/Status_Reports/2006-05-04 BioRDF Sub-group Status Report, 4 May 2006]

*Yahoo Groups
**[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/passerdomesticus/ passerdomesticus] species as group name!

==Breaking news==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5414410.stm BBC News: Sharks swim into political waters] - 2006-10-06
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5403570.stm BBC News: 'Monster' fossil find in Arctic] - 2006-10-05

==Use in blogs==
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22passer%20domesticus%22 Technorati search for "Passer domesticus"] (367 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22acer%20palmatum%22 Technorati search for "Acer palmatum"] (682 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22Homo%20sapiens%22 Technorati search for "Homo sapiens"] (40,932 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/birding Technorati search for "birding"] (26,472 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/ Ramblings of a Naturalist]
*[http://squaremetre1.blogspot.com/ The Square Metre]
*[http://windowboxwildlife.blogspot.com/index.html Windowbox Wildlife]
*[http://www.rxwildlife.org.uk/ 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?"

==Contributors==
*[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] (proponent)
*Malcolm Storey (per e-mail)
*[[User:SXBRC|Charles Roper]], [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/ Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (proponent)
*[[User:SteveMcBill|Steve McWilliam]], [http//:www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information System for the Cheshire region] (proponent)

==See also==
[[species-brainstorming]]

species-examples

2006-10-07T09:51:14Z

SteveMcBill: /* Contributors */

=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.

__TOC__

==binominals==

===Birds===

'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ladywalk/latest.htm West Midland Bird Club's Ladywalk reserve latest news page]

<pre><nowiki>Black-tailed Godwit</nowiki></pre>

'''''Limosa limosa''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/records/lists.htm West Midland Bird Club's county lists']

<pre><nowiki><td>Limosa limosa</td></nowiki></pre>

===Mammal===
'''Wolf''' on [http://www.wolf.org/wolves/index.asp International Wolf Center]

'''''Canis lupus''''' on [http://www.nps.gov/archive/bela/html/wolves.htm NPS.gov]

===Fish===
'''Northern pike''' on [http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish/northern/index.html Minnesota Department of Natural Resources]

'''''Esox lucius''''' on [http://www.pikezander.co.uk/pike.htm Pike & Zander]

===Insect===
'''Death’s Head Hawkmoth''' on [http://funkman.org/animal/insect/deathheadmoth.html Animal Teachers]

'''''Acherontia atropos''''' on [http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2540 UK Moths]

'''Migrant Hawker''' (''Aeshna mixta'') on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

'''Sloe Bug''' (''Dolycoris baccarum'') on [http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/?Mod=Forum&Do=ViewThread&ForumID=31&ThreadID=101 rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information Centre for the Cheshire region]

===Arachnid===
'''Tarantulas''' on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''Costa Rican zebra tarantula''' (''Aphonopelma seemanni'') on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''''Araneus angulatus''''' on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

===Plant===
'''Bog Pimpernel''' on [http://www.map-reading.co.uk/wildflowers/HTML%20files/f0219.htm Map Reading's Wildflower Images]

'''''Anagallis tenella''''' on [http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T47624.HTM BioImages]

'''''Persicaria campanulatum''''' on [http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/?Mod=Forum&Do=ViewThread&ForumID=6&ThreadID=75 rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information Centre for the Cheshire region]

===Fungi===

'''''Amanita muscaria''''' on [http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Amanita_muscaria.html California Fungi]
* as '''''Amanita muscaria'' (L. per Fr.) Hooker'''
* as '''''Amanita muscaria var. flavivolvata'''''

'''Fly Agaric''' on [http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/mythfolk/flyagaric.html Trees for Life]

'''''Rhodocollybia maculata'' (Albertini & Schweinitz: Fries) Singer''' on [http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Taxa/Rhodomacul540.html]
*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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Magpie Wikipedia: European Magpie]
:(i.e. named by Linnaeus in 1758)

===Unspecified species===
'''''Podiceps sp.''''' on [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3644&m=0 Bird Life] <pre><nowiki>Podiceps sp.</nowiki></pre>

'''Psyllid plant hopper''' [http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/2006/07/bay-sucker-gall-trioza-alacris.html on Ramblings of a Naturalist blog]

===Sub-species===

====Animal====
'''''Larus glaucoides kumlieni''' on [http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Larus_glaucoides_kumlieni.htm BirdGuides]

'''Kumlien's Gull''' on [http://www.birdsireland.com/pages/rare_bird_news/2005/january_photos.html Birds Ireland]

====Plant====
'''''Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum''''' on [http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Pisum.html] (also has other examples; note lack of required italics)
<pre><nowiki>Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum</nowiki></pre>

===Cultivars (plant)===
'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

<pre><nowiki><dd>Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'</dd></nowiki></pre>

'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana'' 'Golden Wonder'''' on [http://www.plantago.nl/plantindex/c/Chamaecyparis/Chamaecyparis_4.htm plantago.nl]

====Cultivar groups (plant)====
'''''Brassica oleracea'' Botrytis Group''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

===Trade names (plant)===

'''''Rosa'' Peace''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar 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 [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]

'''Sunflower 'Infrared' F1''' on [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]
:(Note "F1" cross designation)

===Variety (plant)===
'''''Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon''''' on [http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/8/index.html Dave's Garden]

====Sub-variety (plant)====

'''''Betula ermani var. genuina subvar. brevidentata''''' on [http://www.nccpg.com/gloucestershire/wilson1.html National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, Gloucestershire Group] (plus many other examples)

===Form (plant)===

'''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum f. klimpelianum''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28botany%29 Wikipedia: form (botany)]
*aka '''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum forma klimpelianum'''''

===Sense (plant)===
'''''Ranunculus aquatilis s.l.''''' and '''''R. aquatilis s.s'''''; on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/blithfield/plants20060815.htm Blithfield Reservoir: Survey of Flowering Plants...] (see also footnotes on that page)

===Cross (plant)===
'''''Digitalis x mertonensis''''' on [http://www.hortax.org.uk/gardenplantsnames.html 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 [http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/sci-names.htm Scientific Plant Names, Oregon State Univ., Landscape Plants]

===Strain (bacteria)===
'''''Escherichia coli O157:H7''''' on [http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap15.html FDA.gov]

'''''E.Coli''''' on [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5346842.stm BBC news]

==Misc==
===Superseded names===
'''''Tringa bartramia''''' superseded by '''''Bartramia longicauda''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/firsts/UPLSA.htm West Midland Bird Club's Upland Sandpiper article]

===GUID===
'''NBN Taxon Key: NBNSYS0000005133''' for European Otter, ''Lutra lutra'', on [http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/bin/nbntaxa.dll/taxon_details?taxon_key=NBNSYS0000005133 NBN Species Dictionary]

===Wikipedia===
'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_Godwit Wikipedia: Black-tailed Godwit]

Wikipedia uses several sets of markup, e.g. (in-line styles and links, plus some other markup, removed, for clarity):

<pre><nowiki>The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa</nowiki></pre>

and:

<pre><nowiki>
<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
<td>(Linnaeus, 1758)</td>
</tr>
</nowiki></pre>

==Quantitative evidence==

For evidence of quantitative, rather than qualitative, use of species' and other taxonomic names, see [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005790.html] and [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005791.html]. Furthermore:

*Wikipedia:
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ringed_Plover Little Ringed Plover] (see [[species-examples#Wikipedia|above]])
** '''All''' genera articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plover Charadrius (Plover)]
** '''All''' higher classes, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** '''All''' regional lists, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_birds:_non-passerines List of British birds]
** '''All''' dedicatees, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wilson Alexander Wilson]
** '''All''' authorities, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Antonio_Scopoli Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]
** '''All''' images of living things, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_4_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 4 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** Many reserves, lakes, and other places of interest, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvide Belvide]
** Many biological authors and illustrators, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Audubon John Audubon]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_White Gilbert White]
** Random articles on other topics, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_lake Balancing lake}]
** '''All the above, again''', for each alternative language e.g. [http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwtiad_Torchog_Bach Welsh]; [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_gravelot French]; [http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%9C%B6%E9%B8%BB Chinese]

*Wikimedia Commons
** '''All''' species indexes, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Each individual''' image, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_1_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 1 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** '''Each family''' list [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]

*Wiktionary
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/american_golden_plover American Golden Plover]
** '''All''' family articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plover Plover]
** '''Many of the above, in other langauges''' e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aquila_reale Italian]; [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82 Russian]

*Wikispecies
** '''Every''' speices, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Every''' genus, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius Charadrius]
** '''Every''' sub-family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriinae Charadriinae]
** '''Every''' family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** and so on, for '''every other rank'''
** '''Every''' image (e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_hiaticula_He.jpg Charadrius hiaticula He.jpg]

*Google
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=dBU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22E+coli%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''37,600,000''' for "E coli"].
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=Apo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Escherichia+coli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''19,500,000''' for "Escherichia coli"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=zqo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Ecoli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''722,000''' for "Ecoli"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapiens%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''14,200,000''' for "Homo sapiens"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapien%22+-sapiens&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''273,000''' for the mis-spelling "Homo sapien" -sapiens.]
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22%22Homo+erectus%22%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Google finds about '''1,260,000''' for ""Homo erectus"]
**[http://www.google.com/search?svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&edition=us&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=9&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=10&q=%22Clostridium+difficile%22&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nw Google finds about '''1,380,000''' for "Clostridium difficile"].
**[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer+domesticus%22&btnG=Search Google finds about '''841,000''' for "Passer domesticus"].
***[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer%20domesticus%22&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=wi Google images finds about '''3,140''' for "Passer domesticus"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=oEU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22Acer+palmatum%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''602,000''' for "Acer palmatum"]
** At the time of writing, '''every single one''' of the first 20 [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Noctule+bat%22 Google results for "Noctule Bat"] also includes the scientific name ''Nyctalus noctula''.

*[http://www.arkive.org/ 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.")

*[http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder.asp Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Plant Finder] - '''70,000''' plants

*[http://www.bacterio.net List of Prokaryotic Names (formerly List of Bacterial Names)] - 2,032 *files*; '''10,268''' published names (to 2006-09-07)

*[http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/ UK National Biodiversity Network's Species Dictionary]

*[http://www.searchnbn.net/ UK National Biodiversity Network Gateway] - '''20 million+''' species records

*[http://www.sp2000.org/ Species 2000] - '''450,000 species'''

*[http://www.bioimages.org.uk/index.html BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide] - '''53,000''' images depicting 4,600 species (see [[species-brainstorming#Malcolm_Storey|Wiki comments from site owner]])

*[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/ 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"

* [http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=home 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.

*[http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/ BirdLife International] - all birds of the world (~'''10,000''')

*[http://bugguide.net/ Bug Guide] - all insects, spiders, and allies, of the USA and Canada (most with more than one page).
** e.g. [http://bugguide.net/node/view/70875 Arge pectoralis - Birch Sawfly]

*[http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/ BirdTrack]
**[http://blx1.bto.org/bt-dailyresults/results/s171-20-06.html Lapwing]

*[http://www.discoverlife.org/ 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"

===Planned sites===
*[http://herbariaunited.org/atHome/ 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
**[http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22house+sparrow%22 search for "House Sparrow"]

*BBC News
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4835208.stm Fewer birds spotted in UK gardens]
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4743250.stm Study to solve sparrow's decline riddle]

*Encyclopaedia Britannica - all species, e.g.
**[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9379473/starling Starling]

*Flickr
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/citheronia/ Tag for moth genera 'citheronia']
***[http://www.flickr.com/photos/30268343@N00/152101772/ Sample result from that search]

*CNN
**[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/NATURE/01/24/dying.eagles/ Disease threatens bald eagle population]

*eBay
**[http://search.ebay.com/house-sparrow search for "House Sparrow"]

*The Guardian
**[http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1878956,00.html The call of the wildlife]
**[http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1665396,00.html Sparrow joins 'raped' duck in Dutch museum] (note improper capitalisation "''passer domesticus''")

*London Zoo
**[http://www.zsl.org/london-zoo/animals/birds/tawny-frogmouth,99,AN.html Tawny frogmouth]

*Microsoft
**[http://www.microsoft.com/games/zootycoon/zoo2/zoo2_ymi_animals1.asp Zoo Tycoon]

*MSN-Encarta - all species, e.g.
**[http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=vulgaris&Submit2=Go Search for "vulgaris"]

*MySpace
**[http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=47134278&blogID=79591637]

*Nature
**[http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/avianflu/index.html Avian flu web focus]

*NASA
**[http://history.nasa.gov/SP-401/ch3.htm SP-401 Skylab, Classroom in Space. Part II - Student Experiments] ("The common Cross spider (Araneus diadematus)")

*New York Times
**[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9D04E4DE1131F93BA25751C0A9669C8B63 Where the Eagles Fly: Seeing the National Symbol]

*Snopes (Urban Legends Reference Pages)
**[http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fishfly.asp Fish Fly]

*United Kingdom Government
**[http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/vertebrates/gen-licence.htm DEFRA: General licences under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981]

*United States of America Government
**ITIS, e.g. [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=179628 Passer Domesticus] - "authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world"

*W3C
**[http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2000/10/swap/test/ferrell/biology.n3?rev=1.4 An Ontology of Biology]
**[http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Tasks/Reagents/Status_Reports/2006-05-04 BioRDF Sub-group Status Report, 4 May 2006]

*Yahoo Groups
**[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/passerdomesticus/ passerdomesticus] species as group name!

==Breaking news==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5414410.stm BBC News: Sharks swim into political waters] - 2006-10-06
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5403570.stm BBC News: 'Monster' fossil find in Arctic] - 2006-10-05

==Use in blogs==
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22passer%20domesticus%22 Technorati search for "Passer domesticus"] (367 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22acer%20palmatum%22 Technorati search for "Acer palmatum"] (682 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22Homo%20sapiens%22 Technorati search for "Homo sapiens"] (40,932 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/birding Technorati search for "birding"] (26,472 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/ Ramblings of a Naturalist]
*[http://squaremetre1.blogspot.com/ The Square Metre]
*[http://windowboxwildlife.blogspot.com/index.html Windowbox Wildlife]
*[http://www.rxwildlife.org.uk/ 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?"

==Contributors==
*[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] (proponent)
*Malcolm Storey (per e-mail)
*[[User:SXBRC|Charles Roper]], [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/ Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (proponent)
*[[User:SteveMcBill|Steve McWilliam]], [http:www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information System for the Cheshire region] (proponent)

==See also==
[[species-brainstorming]]

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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.

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==binominals==

===Birds===

'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ladywalk/latest.htm West Midland Bird Club's Ladywalk reserve latest news page]

<pre><nowiki>Black-tailed Godwit</nowiki></pre>

'''''Limosa limosa''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/records/lists.htm West Midland Bird Club's county lists']

<pre><nowiki><td>Limosa limosa</td></nowiki></pre>

===Mammal===
'''Wolf''' on [http://www.wolf.org/wolves/index.asp International Wolf Center]

'''''Canis lupus''''' on [http://www.nps.gov/archive/bela/html/wolves.htm NPS.gov]

===Fish===
'''Northern pike''' on [http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish/northern/index.html Minnesota Department of Natural Resources]

'''''Esox lucius''''' on [http://www.pikezander.co.uk/pike.htm Pike & Zander]

===Insect===
'''Death’s Head Hawkmoth''' on [http://funkman.org/animal/insect/deathheadmoth.html Animal Teachers]

'''''Acherontia atropos''''' on [http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2540 UK Moths]

'''Migrant Hawker''' (''Aeshna mixta'') on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

'''Sloe Bug''' (''Dolycoris baccarum'') on [http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/?Mod=Forum&Do=ViewThread&ForumID=31&ThreadID=101 rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information Centre for the Cheshire region]

===Arachnid===
'''Tarantulas''' on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''Costa Rican zebra tarantula''' (''Aphonopelma seemanni'') on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''''Araneus angulatus''''' on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

===Plant===
'''Bog Pimpernel''' on [http://www.map-reading.co.uk/wildflowers/HTML%20files/f0219.htm Map Reading's Wildflower Images]

'''''Anagallis tenella''''' on [http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T47624.HTM BioImages]

===Fungi===

'''''Amanita muscaria''''' on [http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Amanita_muscaria.html California Fungi]
* as '''''Amanita muscaria'' (L. per Fr.) Hooker'''
* as '''''Amanita muscaria var. flavivolvata'''''

'''Fly Agaric''' on [http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/mythfolk/flyagaric.html Trees for Life]

'''''Rhodocollybia maculata'' (Albertini & Schweinitz: Fries) Singer''' on [http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Taxa/Rhodomacul540.html]
*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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Magpie Wikipedia: European Magpie]
:(i.e. named by Linnaeus in 1758)

===Unspecified species===
'''''Podiceps sp.''''' on [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3644&m=0 Bird Life] <pre><nowiki>Podiceps sp.</nowiki></pre>

'''Psyllid plant hopper''' [http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/2006/07/bay-sucker-gall-trioza-alacris.html on Ramblings of a Naturalist blog]

===Sub-species===

====Animal====
'''''Larus glaucoides kumlieni''' on [http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Larus_glaucoides_kumlieni.htm BirdGuides]

'''Kumlien's Gull''' on [http://www.birdsireland.com/pages/rare_bird_news/2005/january_photos.html Birds Ireland]

====Plant====
'''''Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum''''' on [http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Pisum.html] (also has other examples; note lack of required italics)
<pre><nowiki>Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum</nowiki></pre>

===Cultivars (plant)===
'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

<pre><nowiki><dd>Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'</dd></nowiki></pre>

'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana'' 'Golden Wonder'''' on [http://www.plantago.nl/plantindex/c/Chamaecyparis/Chamaecyparis_4.htm plantago.nl]

====Cultivar groups (plant)====
'''''Brassica oleracea'' Botrytis Group''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

===Trade names (plant)===

'''''Rosa'' Peace''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar 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 [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]

'''Sunflower 'Infrared' F1''' on [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]
:(Note "F1" cross designation)

===Variety (plant)===
'''''Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon''''' on [http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/8/index.html Dave's Garden]

====Sub-variety (plant)====

'''''Betula ermani var. genuina subvar. brevidentata''''' on [http://www.nccpg.com/gloucestershire/wilson1.html National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, Gloucestershire Group] (plus many other examples)

===Form (plant)===

'''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum f. klimpelianum''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28botany%29 Wikipedia: form (botany)]
*aka '''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum forma klimpelianum'''''

===Sense (plant)===
'''''Ranunculus aquatilis s.l.''''' and '''''R. aquatilis s.s'''''; on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/blithfield/plants20060815.htm Blithfield Reservoir: Survey of Flowering Plants...] (see also footnotes on that page)

===Cross (plant)===
'''''Digitalis x mertonensis''''' on [http://www.hortax.org.uk/gardenplantsnames.html 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 [http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/sci-names.htm Scientific Plant Names, Oregon State Univ., Landscape Plants]

===Strain (bacteria)===
'''''Escherichia coli O157:H7''''' on [http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap15.html FDA.gov]

'''''E.Coli''''' on [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5346842.stm BBC news]

==Misc==
===Superseded names===
'''''Tringa bartramia''''' superseded by '''''Bartramia longicauda''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/firsts/UPLSA.htm West Midland Bird Club's Upland Sandpiper article]

===GUID===
'''NBN Taxon Key: NBNSYS0000005133''' for European Otter, ''Lutra lutra'', on [http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/bin/nbntaxa.dll/taxon_details?taxon_key=NBNSYS0000005133 NBN Species Dictionary]

===Wikipedia===
'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_Godwit Wikipedia: Black-tailed Godwit]

Wikipedia uses several sets of markup, e.g. (in-line styles and links, plus some other markup, removed, for clarity):

<pre><nowiki>The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa</nowiki></pre>

and:

<pre><nowiki>
<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
<td>(Linnaeus, 1758)</td>
</tr>
</nowiki></pre>

==Quantitative evidence==

For evidence of quantitative, rather than qualitative, use of species' and other taxonomic names, see [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005790.html] and [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005791.html]. Furthermore:

*Wikipedia:
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ringed_Plover Little Ringed Plover] (see [[species-examples#Wikipedia|above]])
** '''All''' genera articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plover Charadrius (Plover)]
** '''All''' higher classes, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** '''All''' regional lists, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_birds:_non-passerines List of British birds]
** '''All''' dedicatees, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wilson Alexander Wilson]
** '''All''' authorities, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Antonio_Scopoli Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]
** '''All''' images of living things, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_4_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 4 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** Many reserves, lakes, and other places of interest, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvide Belvide]
** Many biological authors and illustrators, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Audubon John Audubon]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_White Gilbert White]
** Random articles on other topics, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_lake Balancing lake}]
** '''All the above, again''', for each alternative language e.g. [http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwtiad_Torchog_Bach Welsh]; [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_gravelot French]; [http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%9C%B6%E9%B8%BB Chinese]

*Wikimedia Commons
** '''All''' species indexes, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Each individual''' image, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_1_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 1 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** '''Each family''' list [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]

*Wiktionary
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/american_golden_plover American Golden Plover]
** '''All''' family articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plover Plover]
** '''Many of the above, in other langauges''' e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aquila_reale Italian]; [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82 Russian]

*Wikispecies
** '''Every''' speices, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Every''' genus, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius Charadrius]
** '''Every''' sub-family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriinae Charadriinae]
** '''Every''' family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** and so on, for '''every other rank'''
** '''Every''' image (e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_hiaticula_He.jpg Charadrius hiaticula He.jpg]

*Google
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=dBU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22E+coli%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''37,600,000''' for "E coli"].
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=Apo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Escherichia+coli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''19,500,000''' for "Escherichia coli"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=zqo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Ecoli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''722,000''' for "Ecoli"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapiens%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''14,200,000''' for "Homo sapiens"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapien%22+-sapiens&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''273,000''' for the mis-spelling "Homo sapien" -sapiens.]
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22%22Homo+erectus%22%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Google finds about '''1,260,000''' for ""Homo erectus"]
**[http://www.google.com/search?svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&edition=us&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=9&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=10&q=%22Clostridium+difficile%22&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nw Google finds about '''1,380,000''' for "Clostridium difficile"].
**[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer+domesticus%22&btnG=Search Google finds about '''841,000''' for "Passer domesticus"].
***[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer%20domesticus%22&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=wi Google images finds about '''3,140''' for "Passer domesticus"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=oEU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22Acer+palmatum%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''602,000''' for "Acer palmatum"]
** At the time of writing, '''every single one''' of the first 20 [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Noctule+bat%22 Google results for "Noctule Bat"] also includes the scientific name ''Nyctalus noctula''.

*[http://www.arkive.org/ 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.")

*[http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder.asp Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Plant Finder] - '''70,000''' plants

*[http://www.bacterio.net List of Prokaryotic Names (formerly List of Bacterial Names)] - 2,032 *files*; '''10,268''' published names (to 2006-09-07)

*[http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/ UK National Biodiversity Network's Species Dictionary]

*[http://www.searchnbn.net/ UK National Biodiversity Network Gateway] - '''20 million+''' species records

*[http://www.sp2000.org/ Species 2000] - '''450,000 species'''

*[http://www.bioimages.org.uk/index.html BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide] - '''53,000''' images depicting 4,600 species (see [[species-brainstorming#Malcolm_Storey|Wiki comments from site owner]])

*[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/ 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"

* [http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=home 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.

*[http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/ BirdLife International] - all birds of the world (~'''10,000''')

*[http://bugguide.net/ Bug Guide] - all insects, spiders, and allies, of the USA and Canada (most with more than one page).
** e.g. [http://bugguide.net/node/view/70875 Arge pectoralis - Birch Sawfly]

*[http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/ BirdTrack]
**[http://blx1.bto.org/bt-dailyresults/results/s171-20-06.html Lapwing]

*[http://www.discoverlife.org/ 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"

===Planned sites===
*[http://herbariaunited.org/atHome/ 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
**[http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22house+sparrow%22 search for "House Sparrow"]

*BBC News
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4835208.stm Fewer birds spotted in UK gardens]
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4743250.stm Study to solve sparrow's decline riddle]

*Encyclopaedia Britannica - all species, e.g.
**[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9379473/starling Starling]

*Flickr
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/citheronia/ Tag for moth genera 'citheronia']
***[http://www.flickr.com/photos/30268343@N00/152101772/ Sample result from that search]

*CNN
**[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/NATURE/01/24/dying.eagles/ Disease threatens bald eagle population]

*eBay
**[http://search.ebay.com/house-sparrow search for "House Sparrow"]

*The Guardian
**[http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1878956,00.html The call of the wildlife]
**[http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1665396,00.html Sparrow joins 'raped' duck in Dutch museum] (note improper capitalisation "''passer domesticus''")

*London Zoo
**[http://www.zsl.org/london-zoo/animals/birds/tawny-frogmouth,99,AN.html Tawny frogmouth]

*Microsoft
**[http://www.microsoft.com/games/zootycoon/zoo2/zoo2_ymi_animals1.asp Zoo Tycoon]

*MSN-Encarta - all species, e.g.
**[http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=vulgaris&Submit2=Go Search for "vulgaris"]

*MySpace
**[http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=47134278&blogID=79591637]

*Nature
**[http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/avianflu/index.html Avian flu web focus]

*NASA
**[http://history.nasa.gov/SP-401/ch3.htm SP-401 Skylab, Classroom in Space. Part II - Student Experiments] ("The common Cross spider (Araneus diadematus)")

*New York Times
**[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9D04E4DE1131F93BA25751C0A9669C8B63 Where the Eagles Fly: Seeing the National Symbol]

*Snopes (Urban Legends Reference Pages)
**[http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fishfly.asp Fish Fly]

*United Kingdom Government
**[http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/vertebrates/gen-licence.htm DEFRA: General licences under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981]

*United States of America Government
**ITIS, e.g. [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=179628 Passer Domesticus] - "authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world"

*W3C
**[http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2000/10/swap/test/ferrell/biology.n3?rev=1.4 An Ontology of Biology]
**[http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Tasks/Reagents/Status_Reports/2006-05-04 BioRDF Sub-group Status Report, 4 May 2006]

*Yahoo Groups
**[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/passerdomesticus/ passerdomesticus] species as group name!

==Breaking news==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5414410.stm BBC News: Sharks swim into political waters] - 2006-10-06
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5403570.stm BBC News: 'Monster' fossil find in Arctic] - 2006-10-05

==Use in blogs==
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22passer%20domesticus%22 Technorati search for "Passer domesticus"] (367 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22acer%20palmatum%22 Technorati search for "Acer palmatum"] (682 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22Homo%20sapiens%22 Technorati search for "Homo sapiens"] (40,932 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/birding Technorati search for "birding"] (26,472 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/ Ramblings of a Naturalist]
*[http://squaremetre1.blogspot.com/ The Square Metre]
*[http://windowboxwildlife.blogspot.com/index.html Windowbox Wildlife]
*[http://www.rxwildlife.org.uk/ 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?"

==Contributors==
*[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] (proponent)
*Malcolm Storey (per e-mail)
*[[User:SXBRC|Charles Roper]], [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/ Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (proponent)

==See also==
[[species-brainstorming]]

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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.

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==binominals==

===Birds===

'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ladywalk/latest.htm West Midland Bird Club's Ladywalk reserve latest news page]

<pre><nowiki>Black-tailed Godwit</nowiki></pre>

'''''Limosa limosa''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/records/lists.htm West Midland Bird Club's county lists']

<pre><nowiki><td>Limosa limosa</td></nowiki></pre>

===Mammal===
'''Wolf''' on [http://www.wolf.org/wolves/index.asp International Wolf Center]

'''''Canis lupus''''' on [http://www.nps.gov/archive/bela/html/wolves.htm NPS.gov]

===Fish===
'''Northern pike''' on [http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish/northern/index.html Minnesota Department of Natural Resources]

'''''Esox lucius''''' on [http://www.pikezander.co.uk/pike.htm Pike & Zander]

===Insect===
'''Death’s Head Hawkmoth''' on [http://funkman.org/animal/insect/deathheadmoth.html Animal Teachers]

'''''Acherontia atropos''''' on [http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2540 UK Moths]

'''Migrant Hawker''' (''Aeshna mixta'') on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

'''Sloe Bug''' (''Dolycoris baccarum'') on [http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/?Mod=Forum&Do=ViewThread&ForumID=31&ThreadID=101 rECOrd Cheshire's LRC]

===Arachnid===
'''Tarantulas''' on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''Costa Rican zebra tarantula''' (''Aphonopelma seemanni'') on [http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-6.html Nature.com]

'''''Araneus angulatus''''' on [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/news/friston-forest-recording-day Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre]

===Plant===
'''Bog Pimpernel''' on [http://www.map-reading.co.uk/wildflowers/HTML%20files/f0219.htm Map Reading's Wildflower Images]

'''''Anagallis tenella''''' on [http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T47624.HTM BioImages]

===Fungi===

'''''Amanita muscaria''''' on [http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Amanita_muscaria.html California Fungi]
* as '''''Amanita muscaria'' (L. per Fr.) Hooker'''
* as '''''Amanita muscaria var. flavivolvata'''''

'''Fly Agaric''' on [http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/mythfolk/flyagaric.html Trees for Life]

'''''Rhodocollybia maculata'' (Albertini & Schweinitz: Fries) Singer''' on [http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Taxa/Rhodomacul540.html]
*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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Magpie Wikipedia: European Magpie]
:(i.e. named by Linnaeus in 1758)

===Unspecified species===
'''''Podiceps sp.''''' on [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3644&m=0 Bird Life] <pre><nowiki>Podiceps sp.</nowiki></pre>

'''Psyllid plant hopper''' [http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/2006/07/bay-sucker-gall-trioza-alacris.html on Ramblings of a Naturalist blog]

===Sub-species===

====Animal====
'''''Larus glaucoides kumlieni''' on [http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Larus_glaucoides_kumlieni.htm BirdGuides]

'''Kumlien's Gull''' on [http://www.birdsireland.com/pages/rare_bird_news/2005/january_photos.html Birds Ireland]

====Plant====
'''''Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum''''' on [http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Pisum.html] (also has other examples; note lack of required italics)
<pre><nowiki>Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum</nowiki></pre>

===Cultivars (plant)===
'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

<pre><nowiki><dd>Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Aureomarginata'</dd></nowiki></pre>

'''''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana'' 'Golden Wonder'''' on [http://www.plantago.nl/plantindex/c/Chamaecyparis/Chamaecyparis_4.htm plantago.nl]

====Cultivar groups (plant)====
'''''Brassica oleracea'' Botrytis Group''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivar]

===Trade names (plant)===

'''''Rosa'' Peace''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar 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 [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]

'''Sunflower 'Infrared' F1''' on [http://cgi.www.johnsons-seeds.com/cgi-bin/www.johnsons-seeds.com/detail/azlist/S-1 Johnsons Seeds]
:(Note "F1" cross designation)

===Variety (plant)===
'''''Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon''''' on [http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/8/index.html Dave's Garden]

====Sub-variety (plant)====

'''''Betula ermani var. genuina subvar. brevidentata''''' on [http://www.nccpg.com/gloucestershire/wilson1.html National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, Gloucestershire Group] (plus many other examples)

===Form (plant)===

'''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum f. klimpelianum''''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28botany%29 Wikipedia: form (botany)]
*aka '''''Acanthocalycium spiniflorum forma klimpelianum'''''

===Sense (plant)===
'''''Ranunculus aquatilis s.l.''''' and '''''R. aquatilis s.s'''''; on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/blithfield/plants20060815.htm Blithfield Reservoir: Survey of Flowering Plants...] (see also footnotes on that page)

===Cross (plant)===
'''''Digitalis x mertonensis''''' on [http://www.hortax.org.uk/gardenplantsnames.html 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 [http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/sci-names.htm Scientific Plant Names, Oregon State Univ., Landscape Plants]

===Strain (bacteria)===
'''''Escherichia coli O157:H7''''' on [http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap15.html FDA.gov]

'''''E.Coli''''' on [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5346842.stm BBC news]

==Misc==
===Superseded names===
'''''Tringa bartramia''''' superseded by '''''Bartramia longicauda''''' on [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/firsts/UPLSA.htm West Midland Bird Club's Upland Sandpiper article]

===GUID===
'''NBN Taxon Key: NBNSYS0000005133''' for European Otter, ''Lutra lutra'', on [http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/bin/nbntaxa.dll/taxon_details?taxon_key=NBNSYS0000005133 NBN Species Dictionary]

===Wikipedia===
'''Black-tailed Godwit''' on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_Godwit Wikipedia: Black-tailed Godwit]

Wikipedia uses several sets of markup, e.g. (in-line styles and links, plus some other markup, removed, for clarity):

<pre><nowiki>The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa</nowiki></pre>

and:

<pre><nowiki>
<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
<td>(Linnaeus, 1758)</td>
</tr>
</nowiki></pre>

==Quantitative evidence==

For evidence of quantitative, rather than qualitative, use of species' and other taxonomic names, see [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005790.html] and [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005791.html]. Furthermore:

*Wikipedia:
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ringed_Plover Little Ringed Plover] (see [[species-examples#Wikipedia|above]])
** '''All''' genera articles, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plover Charadrius (Plover)]
** '''All''' higher classes, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** '''All''' regional lists, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_birds:_non-passerines List of British birds]
** '''All''' dedicatees, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wilson Alexander Wilson]
** '''All''' authorities, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Antonio_Scopoli Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]
** '''All''' images of living things, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_4_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 4 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** Many reserves, lakes, and other places of interest, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvide Belvide]
** Many biological authors and illustrators, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Audubon John Audubon]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_White Gilbert White]
** Random articles on other topics, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_lake Balancing lake}]
** '''All the above, again''', for each alternative language e.g. [http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwtiad_Torchog_Bach Welsh]; [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_gravelot French]; [http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%9C%B6%E9%B8%BB Chinese]

*Wikimedia Commons
** '''All''' species indexes, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Each individual''' image, e.g. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_dubius_1_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg Charadrius dubius 1 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg]
** '''Each family''' list [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]

*Wiktionary
** '''All''' species articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/american_golden_plover American Golden Plover]
** '''All''' family articles, e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plover Plover]
** '''Many of the above, in other langauges''' e.g. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aquila_reale Italian]; [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82 Russian]

*Wikispecies
** '''Every''' speices, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_dubius Charadrius dubius]
** '''Every''' genus, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadrius Charadrius]
** '''Every''' sub-family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriinae Charadriinae]
** '''Every''' family, e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charadriidae Charadriidae]
** and so on, for '''every other rank'''
** '''Every''' image (e.g. [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Charadrius_hiaticula_He.jpg Charadrius hiaticula He.jpg]

*Google
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=dBU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22E+coli%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''37,600,000''' for "E coli"].
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=Apo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Escherichia+coli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''19,500,000''' for "Escherichia coli"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=zqo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Ecoli%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''722,000''' for "Ecoli"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapiens%22&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''14,200,000''' for "Homo sapiens"]
***[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=vWC&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Homo+sapien%22+-sapiens&btnG=Search&meta= Google finds about '''273,000''' for the mis-spelling "Homo sapien" -sapiens.]
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22%22Homo+erectus%22%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Google finds about '''1,260,000''' for ""Homo erectus"]
**[http://www.google.com/search?svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&edition=us&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=9&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=10&q=%22Clostridium+difficile%22&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nw Google finds about '''1,380,000''' for "Clostridium difficile"].
**[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer+domesticus%22&btnG=Search Google finds about '''841,000''' for "Passer domesticus"].
***[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&edition=us&q=%22Passer%20domesticus%22&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=wi Google images finds about '''3,140''' for "Passer domesticus"].
**[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=oEU&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22Acer+palmatum%22&spell=1 Google finds about '''602,000''' for "Acer palmatum"]
** At the time of writing, '''every single one''' of the first 20 [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Noctule+bat%22 Google results for "Noctule Bat"] also includes the scientific name ''Nyctalus noctula''.

*[http://www.arkive.org/ 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.")

*[http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder.asp Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Plant Finder] - '''70,000''' plants

*[http://www.bacterio.net List of Prokaryotic Names (formerly List of Bacterial Names)] - 2,032 *files*; '''10,268''' published names (to 2006-09-07)

*[http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/ UK National Biodiversity Network's Species Dictionary]

*[http://www.searchnbn.net/ UK National Biodiversity Network Gateway] - '''20 million+''' species records

*[http://www.sp2000.org/ Species 2000] - '''450,000 species'''

*[http://www.bioimages.org.uk/index.html BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide] - '''53,000''' images depicting 4,600 species (see [[species-brainstorming#Malcolm_Storey|Wiki comments from site owner]])

*[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/ 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"

* [http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=home 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.

*[http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/ BirdLife International] - all birds of the world (~'''10,000''')

*[http://bugguide.net/ Bug Guide] - all insects, spiders, and allies, of the USA and Canada (most with more than one page).
** e.g. [http://bugguide.net/node/view/70875 Arge pectoralis - Birch Sawfly]

*[http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/ BirdTrack]
**[http://blx1.bto.org/bt-dailyresults/results/s171-20-06.html Lapwing]

*[http://www.discoverlife.org/ 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"

===Planned sites===
*[http://herbariaunited.org/atHome/ 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
**[http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22house+sparrow%22 search for "House Sparrow"]

*BBC News
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4835208.stm Fewer birds spotted in UK gardens]
**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4743250.stm Study to solve sparrow's decline riddle]

*Encyclopaedia Britannica - all species, e.g.
**[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9379473/starling Starling]

*Flickr
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/citheronia/ Tag for moth genera 'citheronia']
***[http://www.flickr.com/photos/30268343@N00/152101772/ Sample result from that search]

*CNN
**[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/NATURE/01/24/dying.eagles/ Disease threatens bald eagle population]

*eBay
**[http://search.ebay.com/house-sparrow search for "House Sparrow"]

*The Guardian
**[http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1878956,00.html The call of the wildlife]
**[http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1665396,00.html Sparrow joins 'raped' duck in Dutch museum] (note improper capitalisation "''passer domesticus''")

*London Zoo
**[http://www.zsl.org/london-zoo/animals/birds/tawny-frogmouth,99,AN.html Tawny frogmouth]

*Microsoft
**[http://www.microsoft.com/games/zootycoon/zoo2/zoo2_ymi_animals1.asp Zoo Tycoon]

*MSN-Encarta - all species, e.g.
**[http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=vulgaris&Submit2=Go Search for "vulgaris"]

*MySpace
**[http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=47134278&blogID=79591637]

*Nature
**[http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/avianflu/index.html Avian flu web focus]

*NASA
**[http://history.nasa.gov/SP-401/ch3.htm SP-401 Skylab, Classroom in Space. Part II - Student Experiments] ("The common Cross spider (Araneus diadematus)")

*New York Times
**[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9D04E4DE1131F93BA25751C0A9669C8B63 Where the Eagles Fly: Seeing the National Symbol]

*Snopes (Urban Legends Reference Pages)
**[http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fishfly.asp Fish Fly]

*United Kingdom Government
**[http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/vertebrates/gen-licence.htm DEFRA: General licences under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981]

*United States of America Government
**ITIS, e.g. [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=179628 Passer Domesticus] - "authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world"

*W3C
**[http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2000/10/swap/test/ferrell/biology.n3?rev=1.4 An Ontology of Biology]
**[http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Tasks/Reagents/Status_Reports/2006-05-04 BioRDF Sub-group Status Report, 4 May 2006]

*Yahoo Groups
**[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/passerdomesticus/ passerdomesticus] species as group name!

==Breaking news==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5414410.stm BBC News: Sharks swim into political waters] - 2006-10-06
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5403570.stm BBC News: 'Monster' fossil find in Arctic] - 2006-10-05

==Use in blogs==
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22passer%20domesticus%22 Technorati search for "Passer domesticus"] (367 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22acer%20palmatum%22 Technorati search for "Acer palmatum"] (682 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/%22Homo%20sapiens%22 Technorati search for "Homo sapiens"] (40,932 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://technorati.com/search/birding Technorati search for "birding"] (26,472 found, as at 2006-09-25)
*[http://ramblingsofanaturalist.blogspot.com/ Ramblings of a Naturalist]
*[http://squaremetre1.blogspot.com/ The Square Metre]
*[http://windowboxwildlife.blogspot.com/index.html Windowbox Wildlife]
*[http://www.rxwildlife.org.uk/ 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?"

==Contributors==
*[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] (proponent)
*Malcolm Storey (per e-mail)
*[[User:SXBRC|Charles Roper]], [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/ Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (proponent)

==See also==
[[species-brainstorming]]