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Preferred term

aphonym  

Definition

  • Nomen clearly mentioned as nomenclaturally available (in some cases as an available senior homonym making a junior homonym invalid) but never used as valid by any author and in any publication after 31 December 1899. (Dubois 2005b)

Note

  • Etymology: G: ἄφωνο (aphonos), speechless, silent - ὄνομα (onoma), name.

Scope note

  • Code: No term

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

  • 1515

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-QSSM79DL-T

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