Some functions (such as multiple names or taxa inserting) support full scientific names, for example "Carabus violaceus Linnaeus, 1758".

BioLib is trying to guess where does the latin name end and where does the authority start. This guess is made by locating first capital character or first parenthesis after the start of the text line. Some other tokens can mark starting of the authority, such as "von", "de", "d'" and so on that can be part of the author's name.

Since there is no telling how many words to expect (names can be species, higher taxa, subspecies and so on), this is the only way to split the name. Even if this works in most of the cases, there might be some exceptions and it's always better to check the result of the operation and fix the problems manually, for example when inserting multiple synonyms for a taxon.