Zoological Nomenclature. 185 



IV, The Manner of Writing Gteneric and Specific Names. 



15. 



Generic and subgeneric names are to be written with a capital 

 initial letter. 



16. 



While specific names derived from persons may be written with a 

 capital initial letter, all other specific names are to be written with 

 a small initial letter. 



Examples : Rhizostoma Cuvieri, Francolinus Lucani, (Estrus bovis. 



17. 



Majority report (Blanchard, Jeniink, Sclater) : 

 The author of a species shall be that person who 



a. First describes and names the species in conformity with 



Eule 1. 



b. Names a described but unnamed species. 



c. Substitutes a name given according to Rule 1 in place of one 



given contrary to that article. 



d. Suppresses a preoccupied name and substitutes a new name 



in its place. 

 The name of the author of the species is written in the same tj'pe 

 as the text and immediately after the specific name, without the 

 interposition of a comma ; if the text is Roman, the generic and 

 specific names are placed in italics ; if the text is italics, the 

 binominal is placed in Roman. 



Minority report (Carus, Stilks) : 



o. The author of a species or other group is the author of the 

 name of that species or group. 



b. The author of the name of a species or other group is he 

 who first published that name in a recognizable manner — 

 except that where the publishing author has had access to 

 the manuscript statements of another author, as in a post- 

 humous work or a borrowed manuscript, the authority which 

 he gives for the name shall be considered correct and 

 accepted, unless it shall be proved afterwards to be incorrect. 

 In this case it shall be considered that the writer of the 

 manuscript publishes the name in the article of the author 

 that quotes him. 



c = b I 



d = c I of the Majority. 



e = d\ 



f. The authority for the specific or other name is written after 



that name, and is not separated from it by any mark of 



punctuation, except — 



1. In cases of specific names which are transferred to 



another than the original genus, or combined with 



another than the original generic name with which they 



