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125 The naming of organisms (and plant communities)
mycota: (mycol., unoff.) sometimes used as a collective term for all the
fungi in a particular habitat or place, or in publications as an
equivalent to “Flora” (q.v.) for fungi; as this is a phylum
termination, the alternatives of funga or mycobiota are to be
preferred.
-mycota: (mycol.) suffix used to indicate that the name of a fungus is in the
rank of division or phylum.
Mycotaxon: (mycol.) a quarterly peer-reviewed journal exclusively devoted
to all phases of the taxonomy and nomenclature of fungi (including
lichens), founded in 1974; from 2009 including formal
nomenclatural proposals relating to fungi that also appear in Taxon.
-mycotera: (mycol., unoff.) suffix proposed for names in the rank of
superphylum or superdivision in fungi.
-mycotina: (mycol.) suffix used to indicate that the name of a fungus is in
the rank of a subdivision or phylum.
mythicotype: (zool., unoff.) the type of a mythological taxon (!).
n., [nob., nobis]: to us, dative plural of ego, I; used after a name to indicate
the authors’ responsibility for its proposal.
n-: see notho-.
naked combination, [nude combination]: (bot., unoff.) a name which
circumstantial evidence suggests was intended as a new combination
(e.g. by employing a particular specific epithet in a particular
context) but where there is no indication whatsoever of the actual
basionym (e.g. not even in an author citation).
naked name, [nomen nudum, nom. nud.]: (1) (zool.) a name published
before 1931, which fails to conform to the Code, or if published
before 1930 fails to conform to other provisions of the Code; such a
naked name is not an available name, and therefore the same name
may be made available later for the same or a different concept; in
such a case it would take the authors name and date from that act of
establishment, not from any publication where it was a nomen
nudum. (2) (bot., prok.) a name of a new taxon published without a