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168 Terms used in Bionomenclature<br />

reference strain: (prok.) one which is neither a holotype nor a neotype<br />

strain, but a strain used in comparative studies.<br />

Reformed Code of Botanical Nomenclature, A: a code "edited and<br />

improved" from the official Code, prepared by P.G. Parkinson in<br />

1990; it has no international status as a Code.<br />

Régles Internationales de la Nomenclature Botanique: see International<br />

Code of Botanical Nomenclature.<br />

Régles Internationales de la Nomenclature Zoologique: (zool., obsol.)<br />

issued in 1905, and the first International Code of Zoological<br />

Nomenclature (q.v.) to be adopted at an International Zoological<br />

Congress.<br />

register: (1) (zool., prop.) to enter onto the Official Register (q.v.)<br />

information about a name, author, nomenclatural act, work, or other<br />

item tracked for purposes of zoological nomenclature. (2) (bot., cult.<br />

pl.) see registration.<br />

registerable: (bio.) of a name, one that meets the requirements for<br />

registration (q.v.).<br />

registered genetic resource, [rgr.]: (cult. pl., unoff.) a taxonomic and<br />

genetic category for the denomination of a genetic resource sample<br />

with specific, desirable and defined character states, but not<br />

developed to the status of cultivar and denoted by the use of an<br />

asterisk (*) before the rgr. name (e.g. Trifolium pannonicum rgr.<br />

'*Giant').<br />

registered name: (cult. pl.) a name accepted by the relevant international<br />

Registration Authority (IRA; q.v.).<br />

registered trademark: (cult. pl.) a trademark that has been formally<br />

accepted by a statutory trademark authority, distinguished by the<br />

international ideograph ®.<br />

registering office: (bot., obsol.) an office designated by the IAPT for the<br />

purposes of registration (q.v.).<br />

registrant: (cult. pl.) the person filling in and submitting a registration form<br />

for a cultivar to an International Registration Authority.<br />

registration: (1) (cult. pl.) the act of recording a new name or epithet with<br />

an International Registration Authority (q.v.). (2) (bio.) of names,

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