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145 The naming of organisms (and plant communities)
page reference: (bot.) citation of the page or pages on which a basionym or
replaced name was validly published; not the pagination of the
whole publication, unless coextensive with the protologue.
palaeobiogroup: (palaeo., unoff.) a major morphological and nonhierarchical
grouping of types of fossils.
Palaeontological Data-Handling Code [PDHC]: (palaeo., unoff.) a
proposed alternative method of handling information on fossils,
incorporating information from observational and stratigraphic
records.
palaeospecies: a chronospecies (q.v.).
Palaeotaxon Record: see PTR.
palaeotaxon, [pl. palaeotaxa]: (palaeo., unoff.) a form of immutable base
taxon of fossils, previously referred to as a biorecord.
paleobiogroup: see palaeobiogroup.
paleotaxon, [pl. paleotaxa]: see palaeotaxon.
Paleotaxon Record: see PTR.
Pan-: see panclade name.
panclade name: (phyl.) a name that is derived from the name of a crown
clade by the addition of the prefix Pan- and is used to designate the
total clade of that crown clade.
par., [parenca]: (unoff.) a term in Esperanto proposed to be used in
rounded brackets to indicate that species are related in the New
Biological Nomenclature (q.v.); e.g. *Delfeno (par.) ordotipa*.
para-: a prefix, by the side of; used to indicate categories of subsidiary
elements (e.g. paratype).
paraallotype: see parallotype.
paracolon: (prok., unoff.) a word to be avoided because its meanings are
almost as numerous as its users (!).
paracultype: (unoff.) a strain of a microorganism cultivated by the author
of the taxon and quoted in the original description, but not the
selected holotype.