Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, byBrian I. Crother et al. [Review]
Bibliographic record
Abstract
3 voles, 1 lemming, | harvest mouse, 1 jumping mouse, 2 bears, | sea lion, 1 Sea Otter, 2 wolverines, 1 Fisher, 3 weasels, 1 badger, 3 ecotypes of the Killer Whale, 1 porpoise, 1 elk, 1 caribou, 2 bison, 3 sheep (Bighorn and Thinhorn).Each account gives paragraphs on Taxonomy, Status (Global, IUCN, COSEWIC, Provincial), Global Range, Ecoprovinces, Biogeoclimatic Zones, Biology, Global Ranking, Provincial Ranking (Rank and Comments), Range in British Columbia, Estimated occurrences, Abundance, Trend, Protected occurrences, Threats, and Conservation Needs (Research, Inventory, Management and Stewardship) and a map showing shaded distribution in British Columbia.The accounts are brief summary compilations from the literature, apparently with little new material.However, most statements have citations of source, allowing original studies and greater detail to be found.Most references refer to data from British Columbia populations.The usefulness of the maps is diminished, however, by failure to use dots showing documented localities.The evaluation of threats section ocasionally seems generalized from the entire range and simply extrapolated to British Columbia without justification, for example in the Pacific Pond Turtle.On page 29 it is stated for it that "The major threats are loss THE CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST [| Be Sse Vol.116 " of habitat through urban and agricultural development in the Lower Mainland, and the introduction of non-native predators."A surprisingly focused assessment when there are no British Columbia specimens of this species and the only two documented observations of it for the province, both in the 1930s, are from the city of Vancouver, with one additional vague undocumented "record" suposedly from 1966.Little useful purpose is served by even including a species on such evidence, let alone trying to guess threats.It was comonly marketed for food in its range to the south, and individuals reported were most likely imported escapes, rather than last survivors of a overstressed native population.No mention is made of two British Columbia turtle specimens collected in 1929 (Canadian Museum of Nature, 1525 from Alberni, and 1551 from Vancouver) of an Asiatic species, Chinemys reevesii, which clearly demonstrate the release or escape of turtles that were imported and marketed in both Victoria and Vancouver as is documented by Storer in Copeia 1937(1): 9-11.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.016 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.079 | 0.042 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".