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British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other
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I noticed several mistakes w.r.t author citations. I can't check all of them right now, but remember that parentheses around an author citation mean that it was originally described in a different genus and also that the author does not change (other than the parentheses) when the genus is transferred.
For instance, in the synonyms:
Antilope buselaphusPallas, 1766
Antilope bubalisPallas, 1767
Since Pallas described them in the genus Antilope, there should be no parentheses.
B. buselaphus would have the author citation (Pallas, 1766), maybe (Pallas, 1766) Lichtenstein, 1814 but certainly not just (Lichtenstein, 1814)
For the subspecies
A. b. cokiiGünther, 1884 — parentheses are incorrect as Günther described it as Alcelaphus cokii, i.e., within the same genus.
A. b. toraGray, 1873 also should not have parentheses.
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This article is written in
British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other
varieties of English. According to the
relevant style guide, this should not be changed without
broad consensus.
I noticed several mistakes w.r.t author citations. I can't check all of them right now, but remember that parentheses around an author citation mean that it was originally described in a different genus and also that the author does not change (other than the parentheses) when the genus is transferred.
For instance, in the synonyms:
Antilope buselaphusPallas, 1766
Antilope bubalisPallas, 1767
Since Pallas described them in the genus Antilope, there should be no parentheses.
B. buselaphus would have the author citation (Pallas, 1766), maybe (Pallas, 1766) Lichtenstein, 1814 but certainly not just (Lichtenstein, 1814)
For the subspecies
A. b. cokiiGünther, 1884 — parentheses are incorrect as Günther described it as Alcelaphus cokii, i.e., within the same genus.
A. b. toraGray, 1873 also should not have parentheses.