A research team from Nanging Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently published their research"Supraspecific Taxa of the Bivalvia first named, described, and published in China" (1927-2007) in the University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions New Series 17.
The research team contacted the research first in 2006 at the request of Prof. Joeseph Carter, the supervisor of the Treatise for Bivalvia Class from the Paleontological Institute, University of Kansas.
Researchers spent over three years colleting information and systematically categorizing the bivalvia first named, described, and published in China. They listed altogether 19 families and subfamilies, 209 genus and subgenus under the bivalvia class. In the old edition of Treatise for bivalvia, there were only 3 genus compiled by Chinese scholars.
Under each item, researchers included information such as the original description, type species and its origins. In addition to the categorizing work, researchers also corrected the names that were not in consistent with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
In case of controversy in categorization of a certain unit, researchers either added different opinions from other researchers or pointed out the questions hovering around the unit.
Chinese researchers' contribution to the Treatise for bivalvia helped further the integration of China's fossil research with the international academia.
The research team contacted the research first in 2006 at the request of Prof. Joeseph Carter, the supervisor of the Treatise for Bivalvia Class from the Paleontological Institute, University of Kansas.
Researchers spent over three years colleting information and systematically categorizing the bivalvia first named, described, and published in China. They listed altogether 19 families and subfamilies, 209 genus and subgenus under the bivalvia class. In the old edition of Treatise for bivalvia, there were only 3 genus compiled by Chinese scholars.
Under each item, researchers included information such as the original description, type species and its origins. In addition to the categorizing work, researchers also corrected the names that were not in consistent with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
In case of controversy in categorization of a certain unit, researchers either added different opinions from other researchers or pointed out the questions hovering around the unit.
Chinese researchers' contribution to the Treatise for bivalvia helped further the integration of China's fossil research with the international academia.
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