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111 The naming of organisms (and plant communities)
of the Code or particular cases, and to recommend changes to the
Code, and lists of conserved and rejected names.
junior homonym: (zool.) of two homonyms, the later established, or in the
case of simultaneous establishment the one not given precedence
under the Code.
junior objective synonym: (zool.) of two synonyms based on different
nomenclatural types, the later established; see junior synonym.
junior synonym: (zool.) of two synonyms, the later established, or in the
case of simultaneous establishment that not given precedence under
the Code; a later synonym.
junior: younger.
justified emendation: (zool.) the correction of an incorrect original
spelling.
kingdom: the highest rank generally employed as a category of the
taxonomic hierarchy, above that of phylum (division). See also
domain, empire, superkingdom.
Kinman System, The: a proposed cladisto-ecletic classification of
organisms by K. E. Kinman, published in 1994, with intermediate
ranks eliminated, standardized terminations for higher taxa, and a
code of letters and numbers indicating the phylogenetic status and
strength of support for the taxa.
-klasanoj: (unoff.) proposed termination in Esperanto for a name in the
rank of class in the New Biological Nomenclature (q.v.).
kleptotype: (1) (unoff.) a stolen type, one stolen from its original
depository, or borrowed and not returned, or mistakenly retained in
a collection other that that of the rightful owner. (2) (unoff.) a
fragment removed from a holotype specimen without authorization
and kept in a different institution or collection; see also clastotype,
giraultotype, merotype, schizotype.