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  • One of several forms or manifestations that an entity (object, person, organism, concept, term, etc.) has taken or can take. In nomenclature, its usually applie to a nomen. (Dubois 2005b)

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  • Etymology: Sanskrit: अवतार (ava-tara), successive incarnation of a divinity

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  • 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.

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  • 958

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