Taxonomic dictionary?

Question

If you had discovered a new species, what dictionary and guidelines would you use to give it a name?

Answer 1

first of all you'd need to find someone who was enough of an expert on the particular group to be able to identify if it was already a known species or not (the vast majority of newly-discovered species are invertebrates, so you need to be able to tell one tiny little fly from all the other tiny little flies). Then there is an International Commitee (or is that Code?) of Zoological Nomenclature (that's the ICZN) which sets out all the rules for naming animals; there's a seperate one for plants. All scientific names have to follow a certain formula and can be turned down by the ICZN if they don't. You can find out more on the internet from here-on

Answer 2

Two ways are there:

1) Genus would have the family of the species name and Species can be the discoverer's name.
Example: Russell's Viper: "Vipera russelli" Viper because it is from Viperidae family and Russelli after the scientist who first discovered it.

2) Species is named after the common name, and Genus the common species
Example: Tiger "Panthera tigris" Panthera is the feline family, tigris bcoz of the common name Tiger.

Answer 3

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