"this name shall be attributed to me and Wang because she contributed to the description"). In the 1800s it was the usual style to eventually set an abbreviation of another author immediately below the text of the description or diagnosis to indicate authorship for the description. This is commonly accepted today; if the description is attributed to a different person, then that person is the author. When the name of a different author was only set behind the new name in the headline (and not repeated below the description to indicate that description had been written by that person), this was a convention to indicate authorship only for the new name and not for the description. These authorships for names are not covered by Art. 50.1 and are not accepted. Only authorship for the description is accepted. Prior to 1900-1920 there were several different conventions concerning authorship which is why we frequently find other authors than today for zoological names in early zoological literature. Art. 50.1 has been a quite successful model since it became commonly accepted in the mid-1900s. There is no need to research who the true author was and everyone including young and relatively inexperienced researchers can verify and determine the name of the author in the original work itself. Examples to illustrate practical use In citing the name of an author, the surname is given in full, not abbreviated. The date (true year) of publication in which the name was established is added, if desired with a comma between the author and date (the comma is not prescribed under the Code, it contains no additional information. However, it is included in examples therein and also in the ICZN Official Lists and Indexes). Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 the bowhead whale was described and named by Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae of 1758 Anser albifrons (Scopoli, 1769) the white-fronted goose was first described (by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli), as Branta albifrons Scopoli, 1769. It is currently placed in the genus Anser, so author and year are set in parentheses. The taxonomist who first placed the species in Anser is not recorded (and much less cited), the two different genus-species combinations are not regarded as synonyms. An author can have established a name dedicated to oneself. This is rare and against unwritten conventions, but is not restricted under the Code. Xeropicta krynickii (Krynicki, 1833) a terrestrial gastropod from Ukraine was