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| | Biological Nomenclature - McNeill: The BioCode: Integrated bionomenclature for the 21st century? |
 | | Biological nomenclature, the principles and procedures governing the scientific names of organisms (animals, plants, fungi, protists, bacteria, etc.) and also of viruses, is vital for all scientific communication. |
 | | Anyone who has used our existing codes to try to determine the application of many of the old and little used names published in eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature will recognize how time-consuming a thorough nomenclatural investigation under the terms of the existing codes must be. |
 | | For example, the ICBN and the BC talk of "earlier" and "later" names, whereas the ICZN speaks of "senior" and "junior", and the ICBN distinguishes between nomenclatural and taxonomic synonyms, whereas the ICZN and the BC prefer objective and subjective synonyms. |
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