Sangahyando
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So I've recently installed Scythebill and it's proving a great asset; wish I'd discovered it earlier. One of its features is the integration of checklists for other classes of animal, including a global mammal checklist that they got from mammalwatching.com
Naturally, I installed that one too and it works fine, although regrettably not being as detailed as the IOC checklist (and I don't think I'm qualified to help them in that regard). However, there were some issues I've discovered. When I entered "Wood Mouse" and "Water Vole", it gave me the wrong scientific names. Turns out those English names - without qualifier - had been reserved for Nearctic species, whereas Apodemus sylvaticus has been re-branded "Long-tailed Field Mouse" and the Water Vole has been given the name "European Water Vole" (which I'd agree on, except that in this case, the NA species should then also be given a regional name).
Maybe there are other cases like that but those are the ones I found that seemed really odd from a scientific or scholarly perspective. Surely those two species, being widespread and common in Britain, would've received their common names before their Nearctic eqivalents. Does anyone have more insight into the etymology of the species involved, or the creation process of those lists?
Naturally, I installed that one too and it works fine, although regrettably not being as detailed as the IOC checklist (and I don't think I'm qualified to help them in that regard). However, there were some issues I've discovered. When I entered "Wood Mouse" and "Water Vole", it gave me the wrong scientific names. Turns out those English names - without qualifier - had been reserved for Nearctic species, whereas Apodemus sylvaticus has been re-branded "Long-tailed Field Mouse" and the Water Vole has been given the name "European Water Vole" (which I'd agree on, except that in this case, the NA species should then also be given a regional name).
Maybe there are other cases like that but those are the ones I found that seemed really odd from a scientific or scholarly perspective. Surely those two species, being widespread and common in Britain, would've received their common names before their Nearctic eqivalents. Does anyone have more insight into the etymology of the species involved, or the creation process of those lists?