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Preferred term

adelphonyms  

Definition

  • Nomina of two (or more) taxa when a new taxon is simply added, beside other already recognized taxa of the same rank, as a new subdivision of a taxon of immediately higher rank. The two (or more) taxa are not created at the same time. (Dubois 2005b)

Note

  • Etymology: G: ἀδελφός (adelphos), brother - ὄνομα (onoma), name.

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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

  • 936

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