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Issue: Vol. 43 No. 2: 30 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-30
DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.43.2.3
Page range: 14-33
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The Linz Zoocode project. Seventh report of activities (2025). Comments on the “significant challenges” for zoological nomenclature listed by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Six Articles from Chapters 1, 2 and 4 of the Code

LZC President; Institut de Systématique; Évolution; Biodiversité (ISYEB); Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; CNRS; Sorbonne Université; EPHE; Université des Antilles; Paris; France
Member of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature; retired head of the invertebrate collection (except insects); Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian Museum; J.-W.-Klein-Str. 73; 4040 Linz; Austria
Takehara Station; Setouchi Field Science Center; Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life; Hiroshima University; 5–8–1 Minato-machi; Takehara; Hiroshima; 725–0024; Japan
División Entomología; Universidad Nacional de la Plata; CONICET; Museo de La Plata; Paseo del Bosque s/n; La Plata; Buenos Aires; Argentina
Association RACINE; 5 allée des Cygnes; 35750 Saint Maugan; France
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle; Route de Malagnou 1; 1208 Genève; Switzerland
DECOD (Ecosystem Dynamics and Sustainability); INRAE; Institut Agro; IFREMER; 35042 Rennes; France
National Museum of Natural History; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. 1; 1000 Sofia; Bulgaria
Institut de Systématique; Évolution; Biodiversité (ISYEB); Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; CNRS; Sorbonne Université; EPHE; Université des Antilles; Paris; France
LZC Secretary; Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship; Villanova University; Villanova; Pennsylvania 19085; USA
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature taxon taxomen nominal-series parataxon ichnotaxon ootaxon pseudotaxon ectotaxon hemihomonymy Clerck 1757 polynomen plurinomen Principles of the Code Principle of Coordination hyphens pronounciation

Abstract

We provide comments and suggestions on the first eight “significant challenges” for zoological nomenclature listed by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature in 2024. In particular, we express disagreements regarding six of them, dealing with the term parataxon and related ones, the concept of hemihomonymy, the term polynomen, the Principle of Zoological Independence, differentiation of zoological nomenclature and the pronounciation of nomina. This analysis allows to survey and discuss several basic concepts and terms of zoological nomenclature.

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