At 09:02 PM 5/31/2003, you wrote:
daniwo59(a)aol.com wrote:
Where was the discussion for the naming convention
for animals. A new
user is reverting the Canada goose, and I really don't want to get into
that whole fight again.
Danny
It was never resolved.
According to the The Globe and Mail Style Book: "The generic English names
of animals and plants, and common adjectives attached to them, are
lower-case". Certainly the provisions of a Canadian style book should
apply to a Canadian species.
Also the Style Manual for Biological Journals as "Prepared by the
Committee on Form and Style of the Conference of Biological Editors of the
American Institute of Biological Sciences" states at page 68, "Generic
names used as vernacular names are neither italicized nor capitalized"
The Canada goose is not a strictly Canadian species. There are countless
Canada geese every day (during the appropriate season) in my neighborhood,
and I live in California.
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