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homonymy > asthenomonymy

Preferred term

asthenomonymy  

Definition

  • The fact that two (or more) available species-series epithets are homonyms for being homographs or paromograph (but not pseudomographs), introduced for distinct nominal taxa and originally referred to different priscogenera (original genera in the original publication) but subsequently referred to the same mutogenus (genus of a subsequent combination) not being the first published among them, as long as both epithets remain referred to this mutogenus as their rectogenus (given genus in a taxonomy). Each one is called an asthenomonym. (Dubois 2000)

Broader concept

Note

  • Etymology: G: ἀσθενής (asthenes), weak - ὁμός (homos), the same - ὄνομα (onoma), name.

Scope note

  • Code: Secondary homonym (in part).

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • Dubois, A. (2000) Synonymies and related lists in zoology: general proposals, with examples in herpetology. Dumerilia, 4 (2): 33–98.

Identifier

  • 405

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-Z59W3LP3-L

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