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34 Terms used in Bionomenclature
autogenotype: (zool., unoff.) a type of a genus-group name fixed by
designation in the original publication introducing the name.
autogenotypic: (zool., unoff.) of a genus, one based on the same type
species as another generic name; see isogenotypic.
autograph: (1) a text written by hand, i.e. without the intervention of any
machine, or a reproduction of such a text. (2) (cult. pl.) also one not
reproduced by machine; see indelible autograph, manuscript.
automatic: (bot.) of the establishment of the name of a taxon merely as a
consequence of the proposal of another taxon, e.g. the publication of
a subspecies or variety that does not contain the type of the name of
the species (or next higher taxon) automatically establishes the name
of a subspecies or variety that does contain that type; see autonym.
automatic tautonymy: (prok.) the name of a taxon above the rank of
family containing the type of a higher rank name and based on the
same generic stem; i.e. a special kind of autonym.
automatic typification: (1) (bot.) typification of a nomenclaturally
superfluous and illegitimate name by the type of the name which
ought to have been adopted under the Code. (2) (bot.) typification of
the name of a taxon above the rank of genus by the type of the
generic name on which it is based.
autonym: (bot., prok.) a name that is established automatically; i.e. a
generic name or specific epithet repeated without an author citation
as the final epithet in the name of a subdivision of a genus or of an
infraspecific taxon that includes the type of the adopted, legitimate
name of the genus or species; an automatically established name;
see also automatic, -isites, -ites.
autotype: (1) (zool., unoff.) a specimen illustrated by the author of s
species after the original publication; see hypotype. (2) (zool.,
unoff.) a specimen identified by the author of a species subsequent
to the original description as being identical to the holotype; see
homotype. (3) (zool., unoff.) an autogenotype (q.v.). (4) (zool.,
unoff.) a type specimen originating from a truck or a car after
having travelled some distance (!). (5) (bot., not nomenclatural,
obsol.) a self-pollinating microspecies.