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106 Terms used in Bionomenclature<br />

International Plant Names Index, [IPNI]: a database of the names and<br />

associated bibliographic information of all seed plants, ferns, and<br />

fern allies (http://www.ipni.org) produced through collaboration of<br />

the Australian National Herbarium, Harvard University Herbaria,<br />

and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.<br />

International Registrar: (cult. pl.) the person appointed by an<br />

International Cultivar Registration Authority (q.v.) to carry out<br />

registration activity on its behalf.<br />

International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature: see International Code<br />

of Botanical Nomenclature.<br />

International Society for Horticultural Science, [ISHS]: the IUBS<br />

scientific member for the science of horticulture.<br />

International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, [ITZN]: founded in<br />

1947, now operating as a not-for-profit company limited by<br />

guarantee, which acts on behalf of the International Commission on<br />

Zoological Nomenclature (q.v.) to raise and administer funds.<br />

International Union of Biological Sciences, [IUBS]: founded in 1939, the<br />

international body concerned with biological sciences within the<br />

International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), comprising<br />

ordinary (mainly national academies of science and their<br />

equivalents) and scientific (mainly international scientific<br />

organizations) members; amongst the scientific members are the<br />

various bodies with responsibility for the nomenclature of.<br />

International Union of Microbiological Societies, [IUMS]: the<br />

international body concerned with biological sciences within the<br />

International Council of Scientific Unions, which separated from the<br />

International Union of Biological Sciences in 1979, comprising<br />

national microbiological societies; responsible for the<br />

bacteriological and viral Codes.<br />

interpolated categories: (zool.) categories of names not specified in or<br />

legislated by the Code, i.e. above superfamily.<br />

interpolated name: (1) (zool.) a name placed within parenthesis, used: (a)<br />

after a genericname to denote a subgenus; (b) after a genus-group<br />

name to denote an aggregate of species; or (c) after a specific name<br />

to denote an aggregate of subspecies; names used in this way are not

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