[ANSTHRLD] Cardinal Proper

[Pat Mullins]

Cardinalis cardinalis, the northern cardinal, the bird so nice they named it twice. Note that, while other birds may be in the cardinal genus or family, there is only one "cardinal" species 

From: Pat Mullins <paedrics at yahoo.com>
To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Cardinal Proper

The northern cardinal is the "type species" for the genus. Type species is defined in Wikipedia as:
 
In biological nomenclature, a type species is a species to which the name of a genus is permanently linked. It comes into play whenever taxon containing multiple species must be divided; the type species automatically assigns the name of the original taxon to one of the resulting new taxons, reducing the potential for confusion.

Crap.  The male variant of one particular species (in this case, one
of three with "cardinal" in the name) gets labelled with "proper".

Daniel de Lindocolina
-- Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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