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An interpolated name is italicized and placed in non-italic parentheses (round brackets); some examples are after a genus name to indicate a subgenus, after a genus group to denote an aggregate of species, after a species name to mean an aggregate of subspecies, after a genus and the word "section" or "sect." to provide a botanical genus ...
The entire scientific name should be italicized, except where an interpolation is included in or appended to the name. (For details, see § Scientific names.) Named, specific vessels: proper names given to: Ships, with ship prefixes, classification symbols, pennant numbers, and types in normal font: USS Baltimore (CA-68).
Scientific name (binomial) of the species with no formatting; a entry point into the taxonomic hierarchy. Alternatively, |genus and |species can be used (and are required in some cases) Example Homo sapiens: String: optional: Genus: genus: Scientific name of the genus with no formatting; a entry point into the taxonomic hierarchy.
<noinclude>[[Category:Scientific name templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character. This category is for templates that pertain in some way to (usually formatting of) scientific names of organisms.
Because scientific names at the level of genus or below are always italicised, per WP:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic face, when the article title is a genus or lower-ranked taxonomic name (e.g. species or subspecies), the page title should also be italicised.
A name of a new species becomes valid (available in zoological terminology) with the date of publication of its formal scientific description. Once the scientist has performed the necessary research to determine that the discovered organism represents a new species, the scientific results are summarized in a scientific manuscript, either as ...
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This category tracks all taxonomy templates used in the automated taxobox system that are for species, i.e. have |rank=species.. Such templates are only needed when the species name is not displayed in a taxobox as a straightforward binomial, in particular when the generic name is displayed other than as a single word.