On a more serious note, @jlw: could you please, please, please, with sugar on top, change the title a bit? Capital R for the rat, and italics. It’s Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769). I don’t insist on the brackets, author and year of publication, since BB is definitely not a scientific publication. But it annoys me to no end that publishers ignore even the italics and capitalisation all of the time, all over any written media, all over the world.
It’s so embarrassing.
It really is important.
The Code seems complicated, but it really is the basis for communication about all things living. Stick to the code. Binomials, capitalised genus, italics. That’s not too much to ask, I would wager.
