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140 Terms used in Bionomenclature
Commission; see Official Index, Official Register of Zoological
Nomenclature.
Official Opinion: see Opinion.
Official Register: (zool., prop.) the Official Register of Zoological
Nomenclature (q.v.).
Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature: (zool., prop.) a record of
information about names and nomenclatural acts, maintained by the
ICZN in electronic or paper form; see also ZooBank.
official text: (zool.) of the Code, a text, in any language, which has been
authorized by the Commission (ICZN); all equivalent in force,
meaning, and authority.
offprint: see author's extras, reprint, separate.
-oidea: (zool.) suffix added to a stem generic name to form a name in rank
of super family.
-oideae: (prok., bot.) suffix added to a stem generic name to form a name in
the rank of subfamily.
-oj: (unoff.) proposed termination in Esperanto for a name in the rank of
family in the New Biological Nomenclature (q.v.).
older synonym: (1) (bot.) the earlier of two names in the same rank which
apply to the same taxon; a senior synonym (zool.). (2) (bot., unoff.)
an older name that although published earlier cannot be used as the
correct name of the taxon under the Code for some nomenclatural
reason.
oldest name: (1) (prok., bot.) the first validly published name for a taxon.
(2) (zool.) the first available name for a taxon; the senior name.
oligotype: (bot., unoff.) proposed as a category of types, comprising scanty
ones that are in danger of being used up when examined; when
material so tagged is examined, any drawings, photographs,
chemical data, microscopic slides, notes on microscopical details
and measurements made should be kept with the type material.
olim: formerly.
onomatophore: (unoff.) the name-bearer; a strain or specimen that acts as
the nomenclatural type of a name (prok.) or nominal taxon (zool.).