What is the correct way to refer to species in a manuscript?

When writing a manuscript, how should we refer to species? With their full accepted name, citing the original contributor and the contributors that altered the taxonomic classification of the species, or should we just use the simple binomial form?

Just to give an example, which is more appropriate:

Padina pavonica (Linnaeus) Thivy, 1960

or just

Padina pavonica

Please share your comments and opinions.

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Thelma Aken'Ova

Ahmadu Bello University

With reference to the answer given by Rense Haveman and John Jennings, I do not think that authorities are normally included in the list of references because they are not considered to be reference citations within the text of the document. If authorities are to be included in the list of references, there should be a statement that refers to the work in which the species was described; if there is not such a statement, the authority should not appear in the list of references. If you take the statement : "The Muraenidae is a new host family for Peracreadium Nicoll, 1909", for example, Nicoll, 1909 is the authority for the genus Peracreadium but that will not be included in the list of references. If however, the statement reads: "Nicoll (1909) erected the genus Peracreadium for ................., then Nicoll (1909) is a reference which can be included in the list of references. I have made this clarification because I was a bit confused by parts of the answers that you gave.

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