Parenthesis around author's name

January 17, 2006
From: Dong Bum Koh

Dear Bill,
Could you let me know why sometimes author and date are in parentheses and other times they are not.

for example :
Trapania toddi Rudman,1987
-- non-existence of parenthesis

Diaphorodoris mitsuii (Baba,1938)
-- existence of parenthesis

Best regards,
Dong Bum Koh

drkoh@seasee.co.kr

D.B.Koh, 2006 (Jan 17) Parenthesis around author's name. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/15582

Dear Koh,
We only put an author's name in parenthesis [= brackets, (...)] when the genus name is no longer the one the author originally used. In your example Diaphorodoris mitsuii (Baba,1938) was originally named Lamellidoris mitsuii and until Sandra Millen in 1985 moved it to the genus Diaphorodoris  it was known as Lamellidoris mitsuii Baba, 1938.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Jan 17). Comment on Parenthesis around author's name by Dong Bum Koh. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/15582

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