This template is used to display a taxobox for a species whose taxonomy is stored in the taxonony templates of the automated taxobox system, provided that no ranks between species and genus are to be displayed (since it works by looking for the parent taxon of the genus). If ranks between species and genus are to be displayed, use Template:Automatic taxobox.
Usage is basically the same as Template:Automatic taxobox (with one slight variation noted below).
There are three main cases to consider in using this template:
If the page is located at the species' binomial name and the title at the top of the displayed taxobox is to be the same (e.g. Anatoma_crispata), the name of the species does not have to be supplied; the displayed taxobox will be completed automatically from the page name.
Otherwise (e.g. Psychedelic_frogfish), you need to specify:
|taxon=name of the species without any formatting (e.g. Quercus major)
|genus=name of the genus without any formatting (e.g. Quercus)
|species=specific epithet without any formatting (e.g. major)
|genus=
, since it will be picked up from the page title.)If necessary, you can also use
|subgenus=link to subgenus
|extinct=yes
if the species (but not the genus) is extinct.It's not necessary to include {{italic title}} in the article; this will be added automatically by the speciesbox template if needed.
For species names containing the 'hybrid symbol', ×, see below.
It is slightly tricky to obtain the correct italicization of hybrid species names in the displayed taxobox since the hybrid sign, ×, should not be italicized, whereas the genus and specific epithet should be. The example below shows one way of achieving the desired effect. Assume that the name of the article is "Polygonatum × hybridum", which should display as the title "Polygonatum × hybridum".
Notes:
|taxon=
; it does not cope with {{hybrid}}. Instead use |genus=
and |species=
.A special case is where the name of the genus is duplicated in different kingdoms, e.g. Acanthocarpus is used for a plant and an animal. Consider the page Acanthocarpus preissii. The taxobox has to be set up in this way:[1]
Do not put a line break between {{Italic title}} and {{Speciesbox...}}; it causes the article to start with a blank line.
The corresponding taxonomy template for the genus, Template:Taxonomy/Acanthocarpus (plant), contains the line:
to ensure that wikilinks are to "Acanthocarpus (plant)" whereas the displayed genus name is "Acanthocarpus".
Note that this approach is only necessary when the disambiguation is needed because genus names are duplicated across kingdoms. Thus Liriope muscari can have its automatic taxobox set up in the usual way, since Liriope (genus) is only qualified to distinguish it from non-biological uses of "Liriope".
The template will generate a taxobox which will display correctly only if the taxonomy for the genus has already been created (i.e. Template:Taxonomy/genusname already exists). If it does not, you will be asked to create it. One way is to look for the "fix" link and open it.
The above documentation is transcluded from সাঁচ:Speciesbox/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages. Please add categories and interwikis to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |