describing new spp in tabular form

[Curtis Clark]

At 03:15 PM 1/2/98 +0000, Donald Quicke wrote:
>I was wandering, given that I have a large number of (insect)
species to
>describe from the tropics as part of a generic revision,
whether it is
>possible to do so largely in the form of a table, i.e., rather
like a data
>matrix. The alternative traditional way of long hand sentences
(even when
>written in a staccato style) will run to many, many pages.
>
>Although, I'm an entomologist, I'd be equally intersted to know
if a
>tabular form of description was allowable in botanical
nomenclature, albeit
>with Latin diagnoses appended.

A fascinating idea! If the rows were each a new name, column
heads were in Latin, and table cell entries either numerals or
Latin, it seems to me that such a table would suffice as a
diagnosis under ICBN.


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