Longest name part

[Jorge Soberon Mainero]

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Adolf Ceska wrote:

> Dryopteris expansa (K.B. Presl) Fraser-Jenkins & Jermy
>
> Choose a database management system that allows you to use fields with
> variable length (I think that Revelation belongs into this category).
>
> Adolf Ceska
> aceska at freenet.victoria.bc.ca
>
> On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Linda Stathoplos wrote:
>
> > Taxacomers:
> > I've been charged with setting the field length for
> > each part of a taxonomic name for a relational database. We'd like to
> > make it as short as possible, but still long enough to accomodate known
> > existing names.
> >
> > The longest name in the NODC Tax. Code at the moment is:
> >
> > Archaeosphaerodiniopsidaceae (28 characters)
> >
> > Anyone know of any names longer than 28 characters?
> > For this purpose, I'm only interested in the longest name
> > PART...that is, the genus length ONLY, the specific epithet
> > length ONLY, etc.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Dr. Linda Stathoplos         Internet: lstathoplos at nodc.noaa.gov
> > Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL)
> > National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
> >
> > NOAA/NESDIS E/OC52              Phone: 301-713-3292 ext. 180
> > SSMC3, 4th floor, Rm. 4239        Fax: 301-713-3303
> > 1315 East West Highway
> > Silver Spring, MD 20910-3282
> >
> > *ALWAYS INCLUDE THE E/OC52 CODE IN ADDRESS*
> >
>
By all means avoid Revelation or Advanced Revelation. They are outdated
from the perspective of databasing museums.