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    to only one species. If a name is used more than once, it is called a homonym. Stability. Although stability is far from absolute, the procedures associated...
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    The junior homonym Coenobita Gistl, 1848 is now the moth genus Ectropis. The genus Coenobita contains 17 species of terrestrial hermit crabs. Several...
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    sources, but the basionym, Unona latifolia Hook.f. & Thomson, is a later homonym of Unona latifolia Dunal and so is not an acceptable name. Unona brandisiana...
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    junior homonym. However, since neither of the two taxa so named have been considered to belong to the genus Cimex after 1899, the senior homonym is no...
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    bicolor by George Bentham in 1835, but this name proved to be a later homonym of Collinsia bicolor Raf. (described in 1824), necessitating the name change...
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    plant from the one Linnaeus had named. Thus was created an illegitimate homonym. Under the rules of nomenclature, Koenig's name had to be abandoned. The...
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    jamaicensis (Drury, 1773) (originally in Vespa) is apparently a senior secondary homonym of Sphex jamaicensis Fabricius, 1775 (though these two have apparently...
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    University of Washington, concurs, saying onus could easily read "as a homonym of the Greek word for ass". Günther, Albert (1887). "Acanthonus armatus"...
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  • genus Barbus which would render the current species invalid as a junior homonym. However, since Bleeker's oligolepis species, originally in Capoeta, is...
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    Family: Araceae Subfamily: Monsteroideae Tribe: Monstereae Genus: Epipremnum Schott Synonyms Anthelia Schott 1863, illegitimate homonym, not Dumort. 1835...
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