Author: Michal Maňas
Text ID: 2240
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Created: 2005-05-09 19:29:35 - User Ondřej Zicha
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A name established expressly to replace an already established name. A nominal taxon denoted by a new replacement name (nomen novum) has the same name-bearing type as the nominal taxon denoted by the replaced name [Arts. 67.8, 72.7]. See emendation, substitute name.
nomen novum (pl. nomina nova), n.
A Latin term equivalent to "new replacement name".
Source:
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition. - International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, XXIX + 306 pp.