Naming providers like ITIS, NCBII, etc should be referred to by an argument called provider, not authority, as the latter term is used in taxonomy to refer to the author / publication with whom the name originated, and not a database assemblage of names.
Naming providers like ITIS, NCBII, etc should be referred to by an argument called
provider, notauthority, as the latter term is used in taxonomy to refer to the author / publication with whom the name originated, and not a database assemblage of names.