Species name

Species name is a technical term in biological taxonomy. Unlike the closely related term "specific name", it has the same meaning in the different nomenclature codes, and refers to the two-part name that is used for a species in binomial nomenclature.

For example, Silene latifolia is the species name for a plant that is commonly called "white campion", and Bos primigenius is the species name for a type of cattle commonly called "zebu". In these two examples, latifolia is the botanical "specific epithet" or "species epithet", and primigenius is the zoological "specific name".[1][2]

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References

  1. ↑ McNeill, J.; Barrie, F.R.; Burdet, H.M.; Demoulin, V.; Hawksworth, D.L.; Marhold, K.; Nicolson, D.H.; Prado, J.; Silva, P.C.; Skog, J.E.; Wiersema, J.; Turland, N.J., ed. (2006). "Article 23". International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code). Adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress Vienna, Austria, July 2005. Rugell, Liechtenstein: A. R. G. Gantner. ISBN 3-906166-48-1.
  2. ↑ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999). "Glossary". International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Fourth Edition.