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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