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164 Terms used in Bionomenclature
copies, in a way that makes it generally accessible as a permanent
public record to the scientific community, be it through sale or
exchange or gift, and subject to restrictions in the Code.
publication date: see date.
Publication, electronic: see electronic publication.
publication year: (phyl., zool., and increasingly bot.) commonly cited
immediately after an author citation following a scientific name,
with an intervening "," in (zool.), and in round brackets (sometimes
in bot.) or not (sometimes in bot., commonly in mycol.); in (zool.)
also used in parenthetical citations to authors of basionyms, e.g.
Cubiceps gracilis (Lowe, 1843).
publish: (1) to issue any publication. (2) to issue a work that conforms to
the appropriate Code. (3) to make public in a work conforming to
the requirements of the appropriate Code, any names or
nomenclatural acts or information affecting nomenclature.
published: of a name, (bio., cult. pl., zool.) one that fulfils the requirements
of publication in a Code; (bot., prok.) effectively published.
published work: (1) (bot.) a work effectively published within the meaning
of the Code. (2) (zool.), see publish.
publishing author(s): (1) an author or authors who publish a scientific
name coined by but not established (validly published) by another
worker. (2) an author who mentions such a name coined by another
worker incidentally. (3) the person who prepares written material,
usually for publication.
publishotype: (zool., unoff.) a holotype described after rumours of staff
cuts (!).
pupal type: (zool., unoff.) see locality type.
putative synonym: (prok., unoff.) a name produced in good faith for a
taxon, but which included the type of a name that should have been
taken up; a subjective or taxonomic synonym.