User talk:KittyKat

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Brackets (parentheses) around author names

Thanks for your contributions. You need to understand that placing brackets around author names in taxonomy has a very specific meaning (it's not just about style), and they should not be added to all author names indiscriminately. The brackets indicate that the species has been placed in a genus other than its original one by a later author. Koumz (talk) 12:51, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out, I was not aware of that. KittyKat (talk) 13:03, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

FishBase is a good resource for fish taxonomy, and Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (if you don't know about that yet) is even better in most cases, as it lists primary references. See Template:CoF. Koumz (talk) 13:19, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you again, I had only known about FishBase before. On Catalog of Fishes, is it possible to get a species ID when one searches for it? KittyKat (talk) 08:54, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

As far as I know, there is no way to get Catalog of Fishes page ID numbers except through the link from FishBase, and that is how all the fish people here get them. BTW, the best user resource on fishes here (especially for cichlids) is User:MKOliver, who is a professionally trained cichlid taxonomist and the person I go to for answers when I have questions on fishes. Koumz (talk) 13:08, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Again, thanks for the tip! KittyKat (talk) 09:43, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I would appreciate if you could look over Danio choprae and let me know if I missed anything? (I just realised that the link I used to create the page is D. choprae from Danio, but the species is listed by CoF as D. choprai, while still as D. choprae on FishBase, should I move the page to D. choprai as CoF seems more reliable?) KittyKat (talk) 08:54, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree with you on this and have moved the page following the discussion and references from CoF. I've also added a few things like images from Commons to this and the other Danio pages you created. It would probably be good to add more references for the change in the spelling of choprai from the list given on CoF, but I don't have time right now to do that myself. I think the references given on CoF (even more than CoF itself actually) are the best source of information for making decisions in complex situations like this. The list of references for any opinion on a name is what makes CoF such a good resource. Koumz (talk) 13:08, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

There are two references mentioned alongside first mention of choprai, Talwar and Sen, but I don't have access to either. How safe is it to assume that one or both are related to the name change? KittyKat (talk) 09:43, 7 November 2011 (UTC)