Wikidata:Property proposal/taxon described in publication

publication in which this scientific name was established

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

   Done: no label (P5326) (Talk and documentation)
Descriptionindividual publication, in which a unit of biological nomenclature was first formally established, aka protologue, aka publication in which name was made available
Representsfirst valid description (Q1361864)
Data typeItem
Domainitems about works
ExampleSynalpheus pinkfloydi (Q29367343)Synalpheus pinkfloydi sp. nov., a new pistol shrimp from the tropical eastern Pacific (Decapoda: Alpheidae) (Q29390847)

Motivation

There doesn't seem to be any way to link a taxon with the publication in which it was first described. Abyssal (talk) 03:59, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Discussion

  Comment This proposed property may be a good idea. At present, it is possible to add this information (many items already have this information), but in a roundabout way. A separate property will be clearer. The "notes in which individual publication that a unit of biological nomenclature was first formally named" has the intention right, but may be better phrased as "work in which this scientific name was established" or more technically: "protologue of this scientific name".
        The "taxon described in publication" is a red herring; usually it is uninteresting when a taxon was described. It is the establishment of a scientific name that Wikidata needs to track. The description of a taxon may well be a year, decade or century before the establishment of a scientific name (many of the taxa named by Linnaeus had been known centuries, or even millennia, before he formally named them). - Brya (talk) 16:49, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
When I said "description", that's what I meant. Abyssal (talk) 18:03, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pintoch, Abyssal, Faendalimas, Brya, ChristianKl, Pigsonthewing:   Done: P5326 (P5326). − Pintoch (talk) 07:21, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]