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ABOUT THE CAPITAL INITIAL LETTER IN SPECIFIC EPITHETS
Author(s) -
Pesante Aldo
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1217612
Subject(s) - epithet , citation , computer science , capital (architecture) , information retrieval , library science , linguistics , history , philosophy , archaeology
arriving at a reasonable use of the capital initial letter in accordance with logic and with latin grammar. As a result of the heterogeneity of the epithets there remained, sometimes, disagreement about the use of the capital or the small letter for some classes: so, considering only the last half century, we see, for instance, that, while some authors use the capital letter for names of persons, for geographical names, and for names of genera, others restrict the use to the first two, or to the first only of these classes. And even the International Code of Botanical Nomen-