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129 The naming of organisms (and plant communities)<br />

element and species name the second; names to be used were to be<br />

approved by an international committee; see also asterisk.<br />

new clade name: (phyl.) a newly proposed name that has been established<br />

in accordance with the rules of the PhyloCode; see converted clade<br />

name<br />

new combination, [combinatio nova, comb. nov.]: a combination formed<br />

from a previously published legitimate name (basionym, q.v.) and<br />

employing the same final epithet (or employing the name itself if<br />

formed from a generic name); new combinations are made because<br />

of a change of position or rank; in (bot.) also used by authors when<br />

publishing new combinations for the first time; see also<br />

combination, naked combination, semi-naked combination.<br />

new name, [nomen novum, nom. nov., n.n.]: (1) (bot.) a newly published<br />

name; this may be the name of a new taxon, a new combination, a<br />

name at a new rank (i.e. status novus), or an avowed substitute<br />

(nomen novum) for an existing name; most commonly used in this<br />

last sense. (2) (zool.) a replacement name; see also avowed<br />

substitute, new clade name, new replacement name, new scientific<br />

name.<br />

new replacement name, [nomen novum, nom. nov.]: (zool.) a name<br />

established expressly to replace an already established name; a<br />

nominal taxon denoted by a new replacement name (nomen novum)<br />

has the same name-bearing type as the nominal taxon denoted by the<br />

replaced name; see also emendation, substitute name.<br />

new scientific name: a scientific name, available or unavailable, newly<br />

proposed for a taxon.<br />

new species, [nov. sp., species nova, sp. nov.; pl. nov. spp., spp. nov.]: the<br />

latinized version or more commonly the abbreviated form is added<br />

by an author after the name of a species that author is describing as<br />

new to science.<br />

new transfer: see translatio nova.<br />

nidus: see conculta.<br />

nixus: (bot., obsol.) a hierarchical rank treated as being equivalent to that of<br />

order.

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