The authorship part is divided into the original combination authorship and the combination authorship. The earlier is put in brackets.
Example (bot.): (L.) Mill. Example (zoo.): (XXX, 1830) XXX, 1845
You can use either no authorship (only if not followed by any other part), the original combination authorship, the combination authorship or both.
The parser differentiates botanical and zoological authorship. The later has a year following the
author, separated by a comma. Botanical names only have authors.
Authorship may include single persons and teams. Team members are separated by & . A placeholder al.
may be used for further team members. Both authorships may include ex-authors separated by ex or ex.
Some valid author strings are:
Example (bot.): (Greuther & L'Hiver & al. ex Müller & Schmidt) Clark ex Ciardelli Example (zoo.):
The number of allowed special characters like ' or - at the moment is beyond the scope of this
documentation and will change in the future.