Rank Matters
The Code recognises three groups of names, according to rank:
- family-group names, at the ranks of superfamily, family, subfamily, tribe, subtribe (any rank below superfamily and above genus).
- genus-group names, at the ranks of genus and subgenus.
- species-group names, at the ranks of species and subspecies.
Within each group, the same authorship applies regardless of the taxon level to which the name (with, in the case of a family-group name, the appropriate ending) is applied. For example, the taxa that the Red admiral butterfly can be assigned to:
- Family: Nymphalidae Swainson, 1827 so also
- Subfamily: Nymphalinae Swainson, 1827 and
- Tribe: Nymphalini Swainson, 1827
- Genus: Vanessa Fabricius, 1807 so also
- Subgenus: Vanessa (Vanessa) Fabricius, 1807
- Species: Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758) so also
- Subspecies: Vanessa atalanta atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
- (The parentheses around the author citation indicate that this was not the original taxonomic placement: in this case, Linnaeus published the name as
- Papilio atalanta Linnaeus, 1758.)
Read more about this topic: Author Citation (zoology)
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