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Preferred term

protaxon  

Definition

  • Taxon with its complete original extension (i.e., members, circumscription) in the publication where it was first proposed. (Dubois 2005b)

Note

  • Etymology: G: προ- (pro-), in the sense of first, primitive, original - τάξις (taxis), order, arrangement.

Scope note

  • Code: No term

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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

  • 1632

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-ZXZKCS57-N

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