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54 Terms used in Bionomenclature
Coordination, Principle of: see Principle of Coordination.
coordinate name: (bio., zool.) a family group, genus group, or species
group name; names within the groups have equal status; see
Principle of Coordination.
coordinate status: (zool.) of names subject to the Principle of Coordination
(q.v.).
copulotype: (zool., unoff.) a pair of type specimens locked permanently in
a copulatory embrace (!).
copyist’s error: an incorrect spelling made in copying.
corr.: see correctus, correxit.
correct name: (1) (bot., prok., cult. pl.) the name of a taxon with a
particular circumscription, position and rank that must be adopted in
accordance with the Code. (2) (zool.) the valid name (q.v.). (3)
(phyt.) the legitimate name (if necessary corrected according to the
Code) that must be adopted for a syntaxon with a particular
circumscription, position and rank under its rules. (4) (bio.) an
accepted name (q.v.).
correct original spelling: (zool.) the spelling of an available name when it
is established, unless it is demonstrably incorrect under the Code.
correction: the act of correcting the spelling of a name from the form in
which it was originally published; (bot.) permitted only through
conservation or when the original spelling was a typographic or
orthographic error; see correctus, emendation.
correctus, [-a, -um, corr.]: corrected (by). (1) (bot.) used to indicate a
corrected orthography, i.e. one replaced by another considered more
correct etymologically or more suitable; “corr.” following the
authority and preceding the name of the author who first effected the
correction. (2) (zool.) “justified emendation”; see emendation,
justified.
correxit, [corr.]: he corrected; see correctus.
corrig.: see corrigendum.
corrigendum, [corrig.]: (1) a note published by an author, editor, or
publisher of a work, expressly to list one or more errors in that work