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Principle of Airesy  

Definition

  • In any situation of synchronous zygoidy, precedence among zygonyms (homonyms or synonyms), zygographs (competing parographs of a nomen) or zygophories (competing airetophories for a nomen) is fixed by the action of an arbiter publishing an explicit act of seniorization removing this ambiguity. This Airesy is definitive and irreversible by subsequent actions of individual zoologists. It may however be superseded by the Principle of Sozoidy. Dubois 2011: Whenever an ambiguity exists regarding the nomenclatural status of a nomen after its creation (e.g., if the precedence between nomina or spellings cannot be objectively determined by priority, or if the original onomatophore of a nomen consists of several specimens or taxomina that are subsequently referred to different taxa), the action of the first author publishing an explicit nomenclatural act (e.g., choice between these nomina or spellings, or among several onomatophores) removes this ambiguity forever. This First-Reviser action is definitive and irreversible by subsequent actions of individual zoologists. (Dubois 2013)

Entry terms

  • Principle of First Reviser

Scope note

  • Code: Principle of the First Reviser: The principle that the relative precedence of two or more names or nomenclatural acts published on the same date, or of different original spellings of the same name, is determined by the First Reviser.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • Dubois, A. (2013) Zygoidy, a new nomenclatural concept. Bionomina, 6: 1–25. [ https://doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.6.1.1 ]

Identifier

  • 1301

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