italicization of family names

[Paul Selden]

>I have a silly question.  When writing =
>scientifically, does the Family name have to
>be italicized, or does this =
>apply only to the Genus and specific epithet?
>
>Not at all a silly question. Custom is to
>italicize it in Europe but not in the US.
>
>--
>Dr. Joseph E. Laferriere
>"Computito ergo sum ...  I link therefore I am."

The family name is never italicized (at least not in Zoology).


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