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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Inouye
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>Subject: why italics?
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>Why do we italicize only genus
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I have always thought it strange that the New York Times, supposedly one of
the best newspapers in the world, has never seen fit to adopt the standard
for presen
And for those who want to find the full code of Zoological nomenclature,
it is online available nowadays here: http://www.iczn.org/iczn/index.jsp
Kim van der Linde
L. Brian Patrick wrote:
> To answer this question, I thought that the most logical person to ask
> would be a taxonomist. So I fo
I have always thought it strange that the New York Times, supposedly
one of the best newspapers in the world, has never seen fit to adopt
the standard for presentation of scientific binomials (using italics)
that is common throughout biology. Certainly they are capable of
printing italics t
To answer this question, I thought that the most logical person to ask would be
a taxonomist. So I forwarded Dr. Inouye's question to Dr. Charles D. Dondale,
Honorary (= Emeritus) Curator of the Arachnid Section for the Canadian National
Collection of Insects and Arachnids. Here is his answer:
uot;We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo
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Why do we italicize only genus and species names when presenting
taxonomic information?
One web site I looked at claims that "By the way, the italics are
used only because it is proper, in writing, to italicize words that
are in any language other than English." Aren't any other parts of
the