abubelinha
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2 years ago Not an issue but a question. I want to correctly explain the origin of the term "canonical name" before using it in a text. AFAIK, canonical means "according to laws or rules". But here the word is used in other sense (just obviating the authorship, year and other annotations ... and keeping latin name and epithets).
A "canon*" word search of IAPT nomenclatural code, returns only one entry. And it refers to religious canonizations of authors (see art. 60C.4.d). Also, the term is not mentioned in Bisby 1994 Plant Names in Botanical Databases (a TDWG standard).
So what is the origin of the expression "canonical form/name" applied in the sense used here?
- I see it used in TNRS for the first time (Boyle et al. 2013).
- gnparser paper explains a little more: We refer to the form of the scientific name without authority or annotations as the “canonical form” (Mozzherin et al. 2017).
- It is also defined in globalnames glossary: "The canonical name is comprised of the latinized elements of a scientific name."
But none of them is citing where the term came from (I mean, who made the decision to use the term "canonical name" in a biological nomenclature paper for the 1st time). Is it a concept originated in 2013 TNRS paper, or was the term applied before in this sense to biological names, somewhere else?
Thanks!
@abubelinha (self-mention to find this when searching issues)
dimus
created by @dimus at https://gitlab.com/gogna/gnparser/-/issues/44
Related to https://github.com/GlobalNamesArchitecture/gnparser/issues/480