User:Graham/My Sandbox/ITIS

Purpose and description
This template creates a link to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), a database containing scientific names of biological taxa and a history of their classification.

Use and example
To use the template, you first need to search ITIS to find the taxon's ID number. The example wiki text

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You can also use this as a TSN reference only by leaving out the taxon name; you may choose this format when you're using this template on second reference or when the taxon is clear from context. For example:



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Finally, to hide the interwiki link to Integrated Taxonomic Information System, you can add the optional parameter showITIS with a value of "no":



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This may be useful in cases where the ITIS link is given inline, for example:


 * The seeds of Camellia sinensis can be pressed...

Note: The citation style always adds a period after the last term unless neither the date nor the ITIS link are displayed.

Parameters

 * ID: The Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN) of the taxon in ITIS.
 * taxon (Optional): The taxon's name. (Should be included, but in some cases, the taxon's name will be implicit from context.
 * date, year (optional): The date the report was retrieved from ITIS.
 * showITIS (optional, defaults to "yes"): A flag to determine whether or not the interwiki link to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System page will be shown.