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didymonyms  

Definition

  • Nomina of two (or more) taxa when a previously existing taxon is divided by an author into two or more new taxa. The two (or more) taxa are created at the same time. (Dubois 2005b)

Note

  • Etymology: G: δίδυμος (didumos), twin - ὄνομα (onoma), name.

Scope note

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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

  • 937

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-Q36HSTDW-J

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