LepsGlossary (V)

see Nomen vanum.

The correct name for a given taxon, which may have several available names, one of which (usually the oldest) is chosen as the valid name. The valid name is always an available name (the reverse is not always true). An invalid name may be either an available or unavailable name.

The action of making a name valid.

Different spellings of specific or subspecific names that are deemed to be identical for the purposes of the Principle of Homonymy [Article 58 (ICodeZN)].

A term that if published after 1960 is deemed to denote infrasubspecific rank but that if published before 1961 is to be interpreted according to Article 45.6.3-4 (ICodeZN).

The true.

The colloquial names of taxa i.e. in any language or form other than that of zoological nomenclature. Have no status in nomenclature.

Classification which stresses common descent and tends to unite ancestral and descendant groups of a phyletic line in a single higher taxon, separating them from contemporaneous taxa having reached a similar grade of evolutionary change. Compare: Horizontal classification.

See.

The nearly identical spelling, or the same origin or meaning, of a generic or subgeneric name and the specific or subspecific name in a binomen or trinomen. Not a term regulated by the Code [but see Recommendation 69A.2 (ICodeZN)].