Subtaxon | Rank | Featured subtaxa |
No of interactions |
No of references |
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Domain | 81 subtaxa | 321 trophisms | 104 references | ||||
Domain | 20,622 subtaxa | 103,716 trophisms | 15,456 references | ||||
Superkingdom | 8 subtaxa | 15 trophisms | 5 references | ||||
Domain | 5 references | ||||||
Superkingdom | 2 subtaxa | 3 trophisms | 10 references | ||||
Superkingdom | 119 subtaxa | 544 trophisms | 27 references | ||||
Informal | 10,558 subtaxa | 39,147 trophisms | 7,757 references |
NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for BIOTA (living things) |
Pronunciation of Scientific names:
Scientific names are expressed in Latin. The individual words or parts of words may be derived from other languages, eg Greek, or the names of places or people, but the resulting words are always Latinised, so it’s the pronunciation of Latin that is our concern.
There are four competing conventions for pronouncing Latin (as follows, each with the appropriate pronunciation of Julius Caesar):
Anglo-Latin | JOO-lee-us SEE-ser |
Classical Latin (or reconstructed ancient Roman) | YOO-lee-us KYE-sahr |
Church Latin | YOO-lee-us CHAY-sahr |
The northern continental European tradition | YOO-lee-us T(SAY)-sahr |
Many people pronounce occasional scientific names in other ways, and local idiosyncracies often evolve among people who work together. Naturalists rarely worry about being "book correct", but these rules are useful to answer questions about which is "right".
Personally, what I hear and say seems stick fairly closely to Anglo-Latin, but I like to make an exception where the word is obviously two words joined together, when it can be helpful to emphasise the separate parts.
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