Talk:abranchiata

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abranchiata

I believe this should have been created with a capital. It is an order. I am going to create the capital version now.Speednat (talk) 07:23, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I see now that there was one at one point, and it got changed to the lower case. I will wait and see what you guys think.

So in a nutshell: It is a taxonomic order. Speednat (talk) 07:23, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Probably better at WT:RFM. It looks like the move to lower-case was done by a bot as part of the mass-conversion of the entire dictionary from capitalized to lower-case entry names 7 years ago, and this was collateral damage. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:37, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I have added a Latin section for the species epithet, which is lowercase. It is marked there as New Latin. If this term was used uncapitalized, not in italics, in English text in the senses in which it is defined, then we should Keep it. That is not a voting matter, except possibly for the suitability of the attestation items. DCDuring TALK 17:42, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I only found a single use of Abranchiata/abranchiata at Google Books. But it was the capitalized form in what I think is a well-known work by Agassiz. I don't see how a single citation can support two definitions. I found abranchiata abundantly at Google Scholar as a species epithet, but some of the raw hits there may be for a capitalized form as some taxon. DCDuring TALK 17:53, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Kept for lack of consensus to delete. bd2412 T 20:21, 6 August 2013 (UTC)