I currently use italics whenever I write a scientific/latin/binomial name, in ID remarks, comments or mail ect, but notice that a lot of others -including some professionals, on iNat- don’t. Just the the name (a capital on the genus) in non-italics. Doodia aspera or Doodia aspera I’m fully aware o…

I usually don’t italicize scientific names because I assume my audience on iNat is casual and that most professionals don’t really care unless it’s a manuscript or some assignment. I use it about as often as I use cursive writing, which is practically never.

Why don’t you write in cursive?

For plants the capitalisation of common names annoys me more than the lack of italics in botanical names outside of formal documents. In Australia at least there is a strong convention for the common names of plants to be in lower case unless part of the name is a proper noun and this is the expecta…

[image] 0x4372616967: For plants the capitalisation of common names annoys me more than the lack of italics in botanical names Be aware that common name conventions vary from group to group and, apparently from continent to continent. I’m so used to the initial capitals for many of the anima…

It’s illegible. I mean that in two ways: 1) My own handwriting is horrible 2) Each person has variations in their style, which makes it more difficult to read in general. It’s not taught in most U.S. schools anymore, thankfully. I haven’t used it for anything but my signature since 2006, because I …

I personally capitalise common names referring to a single species, and don’t capitalise names referring to a group of different species. I find it just makes it clearer whether I’m referring to a specific species or a taxonomic group. for example, if I type coralgrouper, I mean the genus Plectropom…

I personally prefer to italicise scientific names. I find it helps clarify that it is a scientific name and makes the sentence easier to read and understand.

I usually don’t italicize unless it is in a professional environment, mainly due to laziness, but also due to not feeling like I need to. Even then, most professionals don’t care unless you’re writing a manuscript or some other important document.

I guess I was unaware that you could italicize names in the notes or comments within an iNat record. As others have said, I tend not to bother doing so in email messages ( where it is easily done) due to laziness or the casual nature of the communications. I’ve noticed newspapers routinely don’t …

Scientific names in italics in ID remarks and comments

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marina_gorbunova July 15, 2022, 10:07am 14

Thank you for your explanation, that’s sad to hear, especially about schools.

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Scientific names in italics in ID remarks and comments

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