Annotating Publications

Introduction

This section contains procedures and conventions used for annotating taxonomic acts within publications.

General Notes

1. All annotation text must be in lowercase except for proper nouns and taxonomic names or after certain special cases where periods are used. The first letter of an annotation is not capitalized
2. The page number used for an annotation is the first page on which a taxonomic act appears
   • An original description begins with the header containing the newly described name of a descriptive block

Annotation Text Reference

Taxonomic Act	Annotation Text	Comments
original description of a species-group taxon	original description
original description of a genus-group taxon	original description. Type: {type species w/ author}, by monotypy and/or original designation or designated by {author} ({year})	Examples: original description. Type: Embioctonus setiger Masner, by monotypy and original designation; original description. Type: Anteris bilineata Thomson, designated by Muesebeck & Walkley (1956)