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Ask Linnaeus? Wikipedia has a picture of Linnaeus's 1735 taxonomy [1] giving what I think is Ursus ursus, Ursus coati, and Ursus wickhead, and the 10th edition

Ask Linnaeus? Wikipedia has a picture of Linnaeus's 1735 taxonomy [1] giving what I think is Ursus ursus, Ursus coati, and Ursus wickhead, and the 10th edition in 1758 has Ursus arctos, Ursus luscus, Ursus meles, and Ursus lotor. I don't know when it changed between the 1st and 10th editions, or why, and trying to read Latin taxonomical texts with many abbreviations makes my head hurt. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Linnaeus_-_Regnum_Animale_%281735%29.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Linnaeus...

mmooss 2mo ago
> I don't know when it changed between the 1st and 10th editions If we're talking about Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, quite a bit: Binomial nomenclature wasn't included until the 10th edition, for example. And from an prominent 2015 paper [0]: "In modern-day classifications, the starting point for botanical names is Linnaeus' Species Plantarum and for zoological names it is the tenth edition of the Systema Naturae." [0] Michael A. Ruggiero, Dennis P. Gordon, et al. A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PloS One. (April 2015) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... (see also this correction: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130114 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... )
thaumasiotes 2mo ago
I'm amused that Linnaeus put a joke into the table. The characteres generum column entry for Homo is Nosce te ipsum, "know thyself". The scan is at a very low resolution for such a significant document. :(