Red-crowned crane, a historical issues

Red-crowned crane, a history www.thebeijingnews.com questions left · 2007-4-297: 05: 03 ·

Source: Beijing News

Director of the birds of the Red-crowned cranes as submitted to the State Council of the only candidates.

Who knows one stone to excite Melaleuca wave, don't know where a group of Cheng Jin, began to get bitten by the Red-crowned cranes on the scientific and English names.

The original Latin scientific name is red-crowned crane Grusjaponensis, English common names for JapaneseCrane, literal translation is "crane" in Japan.

A State of "rehabilitating" the name but with another country, it does have some awkward, not to mention the "another country" bias is Japan, print media, network size of angry roar of "justice" is inevitable.

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Muller (PhilippLudwig StatiusMüller) named in 1776. Mill in Erlangen (Erlangen), Professor of natural science. 1773-1776 he published a translation of the classics of the Linnean natural systems, and published some new named species. This is named the creature has a dugong, alpaca, lemur, and some birds, including Red-crowned cranes. Mueller named Red-crowned cranes in 1776, the year in the United States as a nation. This year in China, Qing Gaozong Qianlong 41 years in Japan, after five years of Taoyuan Emperor Ernst & young, all values in here. On that day, Westerners know only from Guangzhou, China Japan from Nagasaki awareness. Red-crowned cranes since China Northeast South migration does not pass through southern China, Japan's Kyushu and Honshu as winter. Therefore, only in Japan in the West as a window to see this kind of animal. It is named "Japan crane" is not strange. At the end of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century, Honshu Island Red-crowned cranes. Some zoologists believed that this variety in Japan this extinction, so will its English common names instead of by JapaneseCrane ManchurianCrane (Manchurian cranes), but this usage is not widely accepted. JapaneseCrane and ManchurianCrane two names has created a common, some confusion, so that the former President of the international crane Foundation · George Archibald (Archbold) make recommendations to the English common names for Red-crowned crane Red-crownedCrane. Nevertheless, the English world "Japan crane" is still the mainstream. In the google search engine, another two terms in the search results to only one tenth of it.

Faced with this situation, some commentators have suggested that "prepared for the rectification of" Red-crowned crane, using media machine, forced the English world to abandon the "Japan-" title.

Unfortunately, in the common areas that may be able to do it — after all, the name is often the thing, the key is whether or not we accept. But moving "name" of the brain, the problem may be larger.

The 16th century, France botanist package (C.Bauhin) invented the name "double."

1768, Sweden's botanist Linnean (CarolusLinnaeus) in the natural system, the improvement of the method, and make it a basic biological nomenclature. The so-called double name method is to use two Latin words constitute a biological name. Of these, the first Latin word is the genus name, while the second is the Latin word called, some accurate data is also accompanied by naming names. For example, the Latin name of Litchi: LitchichinensisSonn., Litchi said Lai Chi is the genus name, i.e., litchi Litchi chinensis is pronunciation, with words that mean to China and the last is that kind of Sonn. named person France botanist Sona LVL (PierreSonnerat) name abbreviation. In animals, sometimes double name inserted after a Word, that animals of the subspecies.

According to the international Zoological Society through the Statute

of the international animal named, animal naming follows the "priority law", in short, who was the correct naming a species, the name is not changed, unless that name is more than 50 years. In other words, you want to modify the name of the Red-crowned cranes are only two ways: first, it is pointed out that mill on its species classification is incorrect; the first is earlier than Muller found it the scientific name of the documentary evidence. Obviously, these two methods are not feasible.

In fact, because of the classification changes, or when the material has the wrong name, many animals and plants of the scientific name is a similar problem exists.

For example, the scientific name is China Leopard Pantherapardusjaponensis (Japan Leopard). Why is it named to 1862, Gray in Japan to see the Leopard Leopard skin, and naming. Again such as ash, native to China, also known as the scientific name of Sophora japonica, is Sophorajaponica (Japan Samuel). Another example is native Indochina peninsula and Indonesia, Malay Mo (English common names MalayanTapir), the scientific name is "mo", a India looked at, this divergence is named error.

□ Xu Lai (Beijing edit)