INA R-NODE

Help page for new taxa

Delete last entry?

This is a check-box. Checking it will cause the last entry to be discarded. This is one way to meke corrections.

I.D.:

Enter your identification number.

comb. nov or nom. nov.:

This is a pair of toggles. Check comb. nov. if the name is a new combination. Check nom. nov. if the name is a replacement.

Complete name of new taxon:

Enter the name as follows: Fucus serratus, or Fucus serratus var. spiralis. Don't include the author of the species for infraspecific entries. Enter the correct spelling if the author made an error. Don't include question marks (see the comments field for that).

Complete name of new genus:

Enter the generic name. Don't include the author.

Original spelling, if incorrect:

Enter the name as the author spelled it, if it was incorrect and you have corrected it.

Affinities of genus:

Enter the family or order, followed by colon space, followed by the class to which the genus was assigned by the author.

Type species of genus:

Enter the species designated by the author as the type of the genus. Include authors and date. If the type species is a combination, do it like this: Gymnodinium laeve (T. Johns) T. Johns (Gyrodinium laeve T. Johns 1983)

Author(s):

Don't abbreviate! Enter the author's name preceded by initials (no space between initials), thus: M.D. Guiry. Use an ampersand for multiple authors. Use 2 commas for 3 authors: S.S. Johnson, D.R. Reed, & F.S. Allen. Also: T.T. Johnson in Stevens. Also: R. Stevens ex T.T. Johnson. Don't include the parenthetical author in a combination.

Year:

Enter all four digits of the year. Enter the actual year of publication, not the nominal year. Both dates will be given in the bibliography entry.

Source:

Enter the name of the journal or title of the book. Spell out completely. Important words in journal titles are capitalized. Book titles are decapped. Book titles should end in a colon.

Volume:

Enter the volume number of a journal. Don't enter the volume number of a book here. Enter that in the title.

Issue:

Enter the issue number of a journal if it is bibliographically necessary: i.e., if issues of the same volume of a journal are separately paginated.

Page:

Enter the number of the page on which the name occurs in the description-- the Latin description, if there is one.

Illustrations:

Enter illustrations of the new taxon as fig. 2, figs. 2,3, figs. 3-6, pl. 4: fig. 1, pl. IX: fig. 13. Use roman numbers if the plates or figures are numbered with roman numerals. Illustrations are not recorded for new genera or new combinations.

Latin description?

This is a check-box. Check if there is a Latin description.

Language if not Latin:

Enter the code for the non-Latin language. Enter "nomen" here if there is no description.

Collector:

Enter the name of the collector. Use the same rules as for the author.

Date of collection:

Enter the date as 24.ii.1996 (i.e., arabic day, lower case roman month, arabic year, with the year written out). Partial dates as ii.1996, or summer, 1996.

Collection number:

Enter the number used by the collector, if any.

Was a holotype designated?

This is a check-box. Check if a holotype was designated. The author must specify type, holotype, typus, or iconotype.

Type locality:

Enter the locality, big to little, thus: U.S.A.: California: Santa Barbara. Or England: Kent: intertidal south of Dover

Location of type:

Enter the abbreviation of the herbarium if it exists. Look it up. Enter the number used by the herbarium to curate the secimen.

Type of a generic name?

This is a check-box. Check if the species is the type of a generic name.

Validly published?

This is a check-box. It's already checked. Uncheck it if the name is not valid.

If not, why not?

I'll put in the requirements for valid publication here.

Is this name legitimate?

This is a check-box. It's already checked. Uncheck it if the name is not legitimate.

If not, why not?

You might know that it is a later homonym of Fucus serratus, for instance. Then you would write: not Fucus serratus Linnaeus 1758

Fossil age:

If the name is applied to a fossil, enter the age or horizon.

Basionym (or replacement name):

Enter the basionym.

Author of basionym:

Enter the author of the basionym.

Year of publication:

Enter the year of publication of the basionym.

Derivation of epithet:

Enter the derivation if the author gives it or you can infer it, unless it is obvious or common. For instance, andamanensis is obvious, tenuis is common.

Comments:

A catchall. One thing I want here is the name as the author had it if question marks were used.