At 09:02 PM 5/31/2003, you wrote:
daniwo59@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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