[texbirds] Re: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher vs. yellow-bellied flycatcher
- From: MBB22222@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 23:21:00 -0400 (EDT)
Although capitol letters in birds names (and other plant/animal names)
are definitely helping to see if one is writing about particular species or
colored, patterned etc bird; most common names are not governed by rules.
BTW there are other animal groups were not using capitalized names is
recommended.
Lets face it, the common names can be quite useless as they change often
and cannot be used to precisely describe a species in same cases to be
unmistakable understood be everybody in the whole world. Only Latin names do.
Scientific names of plants, animals, fungi, etc. follow internationally agreed
rules which are
published as their respective âCodes of Nomenclatureâ. Each scientific
name is tied to a type specimen and thus its application can always be traced.
The terms, taxonomy and nomenclature are often confused, but have quite
distinct meanings. Taxonomy is the science of classifying, describing and
characterizing different groups (taxa) of living organisms. Nomenclature, on
the other hand, is about giving names to those different entities or groups.
Just my 2 cents.
Mark B Bartosik
Houston, Texas
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