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Motacilla flava flava Motatsillo gelba S+ belguja
Motacilla thunbergi Motatsillo gelba S+ skandinava
Motacilla flavissima Motatsillo gelba S+ brituja
Motacilla feldeggi Motatsillo gelba S+ balkana
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Supertaxons are notated with an exponentially
placed cross, and subtaxons with an indexed
cross.
Thus K Karinuloj (Carinates) can, if one wishes, be degraded
without more ado to subclass K+ Karinuloj or be promoted to
superclass K + Karinuloj; the name itself never needs to be
changed, in sharp contrast with today’s usage.
1. If a species should become a (sub)genus in itself, then
the common language epitheton has to be turned into a
standardized substantive.
Anaso S platabeka (“flat-beak”) Anas• G+ Platyrynxo or
(if homonymy threatens) G+ Rynxoplatyo [fictitious example]
It remains a sound practice to select a given
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species as representative for the whole genus (the
holotype); then a given genus for the whole family, and so
on up the scale. Obviously, whichever is selected as typical
should be a precisely determined and widely known
species.
1. In the present Universal Taxonomy this is expressed by
placing the relator between square brackets, indicative of
“taxon type” (“genus type, family type, subspecies
type”). This in turn facilitates unified representation in
general reference books, so that the same specimen of
plant, animal, or mineral will always be used for a
representative illustration. Moreover the relators may be
judiciously combined.