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112 Terms used in Bionomenclature
l.c.: see loc. cit.
LAD: (palaeo.) Last Appearance Datum.
land race: (cult.pl., unoff.) populations grown in a particular place and
adapted to particular environmental and agricultural practices.
Lanham's method: (unoff.) a method for naming species which uses a
single uncapitalized word corresponding to the species epithet of a
Linnaean binomial followed by the bibliographic address (q.v.) and
all placed in italics; e.g. multifida Linnaeus 1753: 572.
lapsus calami: a slip (or slips) of the pen; i.e. an error (or errors) made by
an author in writing a text, such as a misspelling of a name, in
contrast to a copyist’s or printer’s errors.
larval type: see nepionotype.
Lat.: see Latin.
later homonym: a homonym (q.v.) published later than another; in (zool.) a
junior homonym.
later synonym: a synonym published at a later date than that of another
name for the same taxon; a junior synonym.
later: of names of taxa, any published after the first.
Latin, [Lat.]: the abbreviation may be used in explanations of etymology to
indicate a word or word element is of Latin origin; see also
botanical Latin.
latinized: of a word, one given Latin form and characteristics (including a
Latin ending or a Latin suffix) which is not Latin; such words are
treated according to the grammatical rules employed in Latin.
LB system: (obsol.) a nomenclatural system using Latin binomials.
l.c.: see loc. cit.
lectoallotype: (zool., unoff.) a specimen of the opposite sex to a holotype
or lectotype selected after the original publication of the name from
the original material; an allolectotype.
lectocultype: (unoff.) a strain of a microorganism cultivated by the author
of the taxon, and selected as holocultype (q.v.) by another.