Key to Symbols and Abbreviations in Checklists
Status
Checklists have a 'status' column, consisting of either just a code or a code plus the date of the last record. The codes are:
P | Believed to be Present |
M | May be present, status unclear |
L | Believed to be Lost, i.e. no longer occurring in the Park |
D | Record considered Doubtful (may not be listed online) |
I | Name Invalid (generally not listed online) |
Dates
The date of a record consists of a numerical part possibly followed by a single character.
Numerical date formats which may be found are:
YYYY | E.g. 2012 |
YYYY-MM | E.g. 2012-04, meaning Apr 2012 |
YYYY-MM-DD | E.g. 2012-04-13, meaning 13 Apr 2012 |
YYYY-YYYY | E.g. 1986-1988, meaning all years in this range |
YYYY/YYYY | E.g. 1986/1988, meaning at least one year in this range |
Characters after the date:
= | Year is exact. If no symbol appears after the year, this also means that the year is exact. |
~ | Year is approximate. For example, a record in the original as "in the 1920s" will be entered as "1925~". The uncertainty is usually less than ±10 years. |
- | Record is before or in this year. This symbol is used particularly when records have been taken from a previous checklist in which they are undated, and then gives the date of the checklist. The record is usually within 10 years before the given year. |
+ | Record is after this year. The record is usually within 10 years after the given year. |
nd | No date is known. This has been avoided wherever possible. |
dub. | We consider the record dubious for some reason. The editors' decision is final but should not be interpreted as reflecting adversely on the recorder. |
Recorder Abbreviations
Many of the recorder abbreviations are expanded in the recorder column in the webpages, but may appear in comments or notes.
B | Bagnall, J.E. (1876), "Notes on Sutton Park: Its Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Mosses", read at a general meeting of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, held on 6 December 1876 |
Bioblitz | Collected at an annual Bioblitz in the Park, sometimes by schoolchildren or in the case of invertebrates in overnight traps. |
BMS | See WFS. |
BNHSM | Birmingham Natural History Society Minutes: records extracted by L.J. Evans from the Society's old minutes, which used to record every meeting. |
BSP (after "S. Bodnar") | As listed in Bodnar, Stefan Y.T. (1995), A Natural History of Sutton Park, Part 3: Birds, |
C Clark | Clark, M.C. (ed.) (1980), A Fungus Flora of Warwickshire, published for the Birmingham Natural History Society by the British Mycological Society, London |
CDNHSS | Coventry and District Natural History and Scientific Society |
CES | Coventry Entomological Survey: A.E. Wright, R.J. Barnett, S.A. Lane, D. Warren, et al. – staff of Herbert Art Gallery & Museum |
E | 'Early' records, i.e. pre-1900, but not Bagnall |
ESSP | Falk, S. & Kirby-Lambert, C. (2020), 2018-19 Entomological Survey of Sutton Park, Birmingham |
F | J.H. Field's records, up to 1990 |
FBBC | Recording for the Flora of Birmingham & the Black Country |
GHLPS | Sutton Park NNR Green Hairstreak Landscape Project Survey, Warwickshire Butterfly Conservation, 2009 |
ISR | The now defunct Invertebrate Site Register |
L | T. Laflin in Readett (1971) |
LJER | Leslie J. Evan's personal records and collection |
R Readett | Readett, R.C. (1971), "A Flora of Sutton Park", Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History Society 22, pp. 1-88; also published as a separate reprint. |
SCNHS | Records of outings of the Sutton Coldfield Natural History Society |
SISP | Falk, S. & Lane, S. (June 1999), A Survey of the Insects of Sutton Park, Falk Entomology |
SISPR | Records listed in SISP (see above) as "teste [John] Robbins" |
SPHG | Field, J.C.W. & James, P.W. (eds.) (1965), Sutton Park, A History and Guide, Friends of the Park Association/Sutton Coldfield News. |
VSP (after "S. Bodnar") | Indicates a statement of a record in S. Bodnar's unpublished account of the vertebrates of Sutton Park, mostly written around 1995, rather than a specific record by him. |
VCH | Victoria County History of Warwickshire, Vol. 1, 1904 |
WBRC | Warwickshire Biological Records Centre, Warwickshire Museum, Warwick |
WFS | Warwickshire Fungus Survey records, including their lists of supplementary records. May also be called the Birmingham Natural History Society Mycological Section in some sources. Now the Warwickshire Fungus Group. |
Names and Synonyms
Scientific names given in parentheses are not necessarily synonyms in the sense of the nomenclature codes; they may include incorrect names or misidentifications used in earlier versions of the lists.
Symbols after a synonym (such as * or ^) should be ignored. (They are cross-references within the original database.)
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