2022
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-022-10058-0
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Short and sweet: an analysis of the length of parasite species names

Abstract: In its advice to taxonomists, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) recommends that scientific species names should be compact, memorable, and easy to pronounce. Here, using a dataset of over 3000 species of parasitic helminths described in the past two decades, we investigate trends in the length of Latin specific names (=epithets) chosen by taxonomists. Our results reveal no significant temporal change in the length of species epithets as a function of year of description, with annua… Show more

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“…As the basis for our dataset, we used all species of helminth parasites described between 2000 and 2018 inclusively in the following 8 journals: Acta Parasitologica (data from 2000 to 2005 missing for this journal), Comparative Parasitology , Folia Parasitologica , Journal of Helminthology , Journal of Parasitology , Parasitology International , Parasitology Research , and Systematic Parasitology . This was extracted from the more extensive compilations in Poulin et al (2022a , 2022b) . We stopped at 2018 to allow time post-description for additional research to be conducted on a species; very recently discovered species are unlikely to have been the subject of any further research.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As the basis for our dataset, we used all species of helminth parasites described between 2000 and 2018 inclusively in the following 8 journals: Acta Parasitologica (data from 2000 to 2005 missing for this journal), Comparative Parasitology , Folia Parasitologica , Journal of Helminthology , Journal of Parasitology , Parasitology International , Parasitology Research , and Systematic Parasitology . This was extracted from the more extensive compilations in Poulin et al (2022a , 2022b) . We stopped at 2018 to allow time post-description for additional research to be conducted on a species; very recently discovered species are unlikely to have been the subject of any further research.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%