Editing Common name (section)

=== Official lists ===
Some organizations have created official lists of common names, or guidelines for creating common names, hoping to standardize the use of common names.

For example, the Australian Fish Names List or AFNS was compiled through a process involving work by taxonomic and seafood industry experts, drafted using the CAAB (Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota) taxon management system of the [[CSIRO]],<ref name = "CSIROFish"/> and including input through public and industry consultations by the [[Australian Fish Names Committee]] (AFNC). The AFNS has been an official Australian Standard since July 2007 and has existed in draft form (The Australian Fish Names List) since 2001.
[[Seafood Services Australia]] (SSA) serve as the Secretariat for the AFNC. SSA is an accredited Standards Australia (Australia's peak non-government standards development organisation) Standards Development<ref>[http://www.seafood.net.au/fishnames/standard.php Overview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923043721/http://www.seafood.net.au/fishnames/standard.php |date=2006-09-23 }}: Australian Fish Names Standard. Seafood Services Australia</ref>

The [[Entomological Society of America]] maintains a database of official common names of insects, and proposals for new entries must be submitted and reviewed by a formal committee before being added to the listing.<ref>[https://www.entsoc.org/common-names Common Names of Insects Database]</ref>

Efforts to standardize English names for the amphibians and reptiles of North America (north of Mexico) began in the mid-1950s.<ref name="Conant et al. (1956)">[[Roger Conant (herpetologist)|Conant, Roger]], Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, [[Charles Herbert Lowe|Charles H. Lowe]], Jr., [[Wilfred T. Neill]], [[M. Graham Netting]], [[Karl Patterson Schmidt|Karl P. Schmidt]], Charles E. Shaw, [[Robert C. Stebbins]], and [[Charles Mitchill Bogert|Charles M. Bogert]]. 1956. ''Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles''. Copeia 1956: 172–185.</ref> The dynamic nature of [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]] necessitates periodical updates and changes in the nomenclature of both scientific and common names. The [[Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles]] (SSAR) published an updated list in 1978,<ref name="Collins (1978)">[[Joseph T. Collins|Collins, J.. T.]], J. E. Huheey, J. L. Knight, and [[Hobart Muir Smith|H. M. Smith]]. 1978. ''Standard and current scientific names for North American amphibians and reptiles.'' Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circulars No. 7.</ref> largely following the previous established examples, and subsequently published eight revised editions ending in 2017.<ref name="Crother (2017)">Crother, Brian I. (Editor.). 2017. ''[https://ssarherps.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/8th-Ed-2017-Scientific-and-Standard-English-Names.pdf Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, 8th Edition.]'' Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 43:1–102 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-946681-00-3}}</ref> More recently the SSAR switched to an online version with a searchable database.<ref name="SSAR Checklist">Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles: ''[https://ssarherps.org/publications/north-american-checklist/ Checklist of the Standard English Names of Amphibians & Reptiles.]'' (accessed August 2, 2022)</ref> Standardized names for the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico in Spanish and English were first published in 1994,<ref name="Liner (1994)">Liner, Ernest A. 1994. ''Scientific and common names for the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish (Nombres científicos y comunes en ingles y español de los anfibios y los reptiles de México).'' Herpetological Circulars No. 23: v, 113 pp. {{ISBN|0-916984-32-X}}</ref> with a revised and updated list published in 2008.<ref name="Liner & Casas-Andreu (2008)">Liner, Ernest A. and Gustavo Casas-Andreu. 2008. ''Standard Spanish, English and scientific names of the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico.'' Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 38: iv, 162 pp.. {{ISBN|978-0-916984-75-5}}</ref>

A set of guidelines for the creation of English names for birds was published in ''[[The Auk]]'' in 1978.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Parkes |first=K.C. |year=1978 |title= A guide to forming and capitalizing compound names of birds in English|journal=[[The Auk]]|volume= 95|issue=2|pages= 324–326|doi=10.1093/auk/95.2.324|url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v095n02/p0324-p0326.pdf}}</ref>  It gave rise to ''[[Birds of the World: Recommended English Names]]'' and its Spanish and French companions.

The [[Academy of the Hebrew Language]] publish from time to time short dictionaries of common name in Hebrew for species that occur in Israel or surrounding countries e.g. for [[Reptilia]] in 1938, [[Osteichthyes]] in 2012, and [[Odonata]] in 2015.