Hi everyone, I have a question about best practices for consistent curation of common names. I will explain the issue in the context of German common names, which are the ones I deal with most frequently, but the same issue presumably arises in many other languages. In German there are many genera…

[image] spint: In many but certainly not all such cases, the German common name of the genus is qualified by adding “Gattung” (meaning “genus”) in parentheses. You can see many examples here: https://www.inaturalist.org/search?q=gattung Do not forget to select German as a lexicon (which caus…

Would it be smart to remove common names from higher ranks that contain subordinate taxa with the exact same common name? This might affect a lot of species but could improve the specificity of identifications.

In Spanish, nouns that end in ‘s’ add “-es” if the stress is on the last syllable or there’s only one syllable, but if the stress is before the last syllable, the “-s” plural suffix is folded into the “-s” of the word, resulting in no change. The Venus flytrap is “Venus atrapamoscas” (I’d say “atrap…

Hate this problem. Occurs commonly for Rotkehlchen and Zwergtaucher. Brain train. ;)

Genus names in German and other languages

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Genus names in German and other languages

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