scientific name

[macvsog23]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...l_Nomenclature

This may help people understand how a fish gets its scientific name ie Hemiancistrus subviridis

Regards Bob

[Rabbit]

Cheers Mate, good read.

[macvsog23]

Heavy going at points but give a good insite in to what has to happen before we get "Ploppy Plecos" at the LFH

[Rabbit]

Im trying to find a copy of ICZN's "the code" but had no luck so far, do you know if there is a pdf or downloadable version?

[macvsog23]

I think if you contact the Natural History Museum in London UK they can supply one I seem to remember getting some stuff from them in the 70,s when I went all scientific over fish.

Regards Bob

[Rabbit]

Originally Posted by macvsog23

I seem to remember getting some stuff from them in the 70,s when I went all scientific over fish.
Regards Bob

LOL, i found a site i can purchase a copy through (from the museum) ill see how i go cheers mate

[Doodles]

Originally Posted by Rabbit

LOL, i found a site i can purchase a copy through (from the museum) ill see how i go cheers mate

Is it expensive?

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Good post, you can get all the details from ICZN at: http://www.iczn.org/iczn/index.jsp. It's the 4th edition.

It's not a catalogue of valid names, it's just the rules for the scientific naming of animals, they are incredibly complicated, a bit like "the rules of golf", and various criteria have to be fulfilled (type specimen(s), location, a holotype, paratypes etc.), which is partially why there a lot of fish in people's tank without a valid scientific name. There is also the "International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature" which settles disputes, and has the final say.

The best bet for finding whether a name is a "valid name" is to type it into "Google Scholar" - so for Bob's "Hemiancistrus subviridis".
Google Scholar search <http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?...001&as_sdtp=on>.

and the scientific paper publishing the valid name:

<http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=...rttext&tlng=en>

Werneke, D. Sabaj, M; Lujan, N; & Armbruster J. (2005)
"Baryancistrus demantoides and Hemiancistrus subviridis, two new uniquely colored species of catfishes from Venezuela (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)."
Neotrop. ichthyol. 3:4 pp. 533-542.

You will find the names of "Sabaj, Lujan & Armbruster" on many loricariid papers. Armbruster's Loricariid papers are here: <http://www.auburn.edu/~armbrjw/>.

cheers Darrel

[macvsog23]

Top stuff mate

Thanks

[macvsog23]

The barstewareds at the "International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature" would not let me name a fish after my hero I wanted to call a new sp Polpotus zeroius