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Index of Scientific Names
Index of scientific names provided by all Name Repositories (19,384,364 names total)
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Examples:
“Parus major”
“gen:Parus sp:major”
“can:Parus maj*”
“gen:Parus yr:1822”
“au:Lang* yr:1888”
Modifier
Meaning
Explanation
Examples
*
wild card
Search by part of a word
planta*
ns:
name string
Search for literal string from its beginning
(other modifiers will be ignored)
ns:parus maj*
can:
canonical form
Search name without authors
(other modifiers will be ignored)
can:parus major
uni:
uninomial
Search for higher taxa
uni:parus
gen:
genus
Search by genus epithet of species name
gen:parus
sp:
species
Search by species epithet
sp:major
ssp:
subspecies
Search by infraspecies epithet
ssp:major
au:
author
Search by author word
au:Shipunov
yr:
year
Search by year
yr:2005
Note:
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modifiers work only for parsed names
