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Preferred term

xenotaxon  

Definition

  • One of two distinct taxa, of the same or different nominal-series are considered to correspond to different taxa (same extension) in a given taxonomy. (Dubois 2005b)

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Note

  • Etymology: G: ξένος (xenos), foreign - τάξις (taxis), order, arrangement.

Scope note

  • Code: No term

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • Dubois, A. (2005) Proposed Rules for the incorporation of nomina of higher-ranked zoological taxa in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 1. Some general questions, concepts and terms of biological nomenclature. Zoosystema, 27 (2): 365–426.

Identifier

  • 1901

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-BZTPXKQ4-T

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