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126 Terms used in Bionomenclature
description or diagnosis or reference to a description or diagnosis,
and so not validly published; a bare name (prok.); see also nomen
subnudum.
name: (1) (not nomenclatural) a word, or ordered sequence of words,
conventionally used to denote and identify a particular entity (e.g. a
person, place, object, concept). (2) (zool.) equivalent to scientific
name (q.v). (3) (zool.) an element of the name of a species-group
taxon. (4) (bot., cult. pl.) a name that has been validly published (or
established), whether it is legitimate or illegitimate; see also
available name, designation, epithet, scientific name. (5) (phyl.) a
word or words used to designate (refer to) an organism or group of
organisms; see acceptable name, accepted name, established name,
replacement name, scientific name, taxon name.
name-bearer: see name-bearing type.
name-bearing type, [name-bearer]: (1) (bio.) the element to which the
name of a taxon is permanently attached, whether it is an accepted
name or not. (2) (zool.) the type genus, type species, holotype,
lectotype, series of syntypes (which together constitute the namebearing
type), or neotype or type slide or hapantotype, that provides
the objective standard of reference whereby the application of the
name of a nominal taxon can be determined; the nomenclatural type
(q.v.).
name-group: (zool.) an assemblage of nomenclaturally co-ordinate
categories (e.g. family-group, genus-group, species-group; see
Principle of Coordination.
Names in Current Use, [NCU]: (bot., prop.) ones currently accepted as the
correct names for organisms; see List of Names in Current Use.
natio: (1) (unoff., obsol.) used for specimens or groups of specimens of an
uncertain infraspecific category. (2) (zool., obsol.) a subspecies "of
the second order", i.e. a taxon with the same relation to the
subspecies as the subspecies does to the species.
natural order: see ordo naturalis.
NBN: see New Biological Nomenclature.