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68 Terms used in Bionomenclature
emendavit, [emendates]: see emended.
emendation: (1) (zool.) any intentional change in the original spelling of an
available name. (2) (zool.) an available name formed by
intentionally changing the original spelling of an available name;
such emendations may be justified (q.v.) or unjustified (q.v.). (3) an
emended (q.v.) circumscription of a taxon. (4) (phyl.) a formal
change in the phylogenetic definition of a name.
emended, [emendavit, emendatio, emendatus, -a, -um; emend.]: (bot.,
prok.) sometimes used in author citations to indicate that an author
has changed the circumscription or spelling of a taxon; correctly
used only where the nomenclatural type has not been excluded and
recommended for use only when the change has been considerable;
such indications of emendation are not part of the formal author
citation of a name except where a type has been excluded (and in
which case a homonym may have been published)..
empire [imperium]: (unoff., prok.): a taxonomic rank above that of
kingdom; a domain (q.v.).
-enalia: (phyt.) the suffix terminating the name of a syntaxon in the rank of
suborder.
ending: of a word, the termination (q.v.).
-enea: (phyt.) the suffix terminating the name of a syntaxon in the rank of
subclass.
-enion: (phyt.) the suffix terminating the name of a syntaxon in the rank of
suballiance.
entity: a taxonomic unit; see taxon.
Entomological Code, The: (zool., obsol.) a code for use in entomology,
prepared by N. Banks and A. N. Caudill, published in 1912 (with a
facsimile reprint in 2009), with no overriding committee and in
which every user was commended to interpret the rules personally;
superseded by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
(q.v.).
epharmone: (bot., obsol.) an unstable form due to environmental
influences, arising from the usual form when those influences are
sufficiently modified.