Chapter 4: Criteria of availability


Article 18. Inappropriate and tautonymous names. The availability of a name is not affected by inappropriateness or tautonymy [Art. 23.3.7].

Examples. Names such as Polyodon, Apus, albus or sinensis are not to be rejected because of a claim that they denote a character or distribution not possessed by the taxon. Species-group names such as bison in Bison bison and troglodytes in Troglodytes troglodytes troglodytes are not to be rejected because of tautonymy.


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FranciscoWelterSchultes   Remove the second "troglodytes" from the example, it leads to misunderstandings. Replace it eventually by Albinaria hippolyti hippolyti, if tautonymy of species and subspecies is meant (but I don't think it is meant here).
2008-11-06 08:40:00

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