Concept information
Preferred term
allocation
Definition
- Nomenclatural act regulated by a code by which a nomen becomes attached to a taxon or several taxa in zoological nomenclature, under a given system of allocation of nomina to taxa (e.g., through onomatophores or through ‘phylogenetic definitions’). (Dubois 2005b)
Entry terms
- designation
- fixation
- type fixation
Scope note
- Code: Designation: The nomenclatural act of an author or the Commission in fixing, by an express statement, the name-bearing type of a newly or previously established nominal genus, subgenus, species, or subspecies. Fixation: A general term for the determination of a name-bearing type, whether by original designation, or by any other means.
Belongs to group
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
- 208
In other languages
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French
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désignation
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fixation
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fixation d'un type
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-XCK3R8TR-5
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