Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Reason?/reply (5)

Taxonomic names are a strange combination of Latin and translingual: they don't have to be Latin in origin, but the rules of formation and treatment specify that they conform to Latin grammar. Here are a couple of relevant parts of the code for animal names:
 * 1) http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/includes/page.jsp?article=11&nfv=#9
 * 2) http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/includes/page.jsp?article=31&nfv=