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  2. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

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    The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...

  3. Binomial nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), a Swedish botanist, invented the modern system of binomial nomenclature. Prior to the adoption of the modern binomial system of naming species, a scientific name consisted of a generic name combined with a specific name that was from one to several words long.

  4. Nomenclature codes - Wikipedia

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    Nomenclature codes or codes of nomenclature are the various rulebooks that govern the naming of living organisms. Standardizing the scientific names of biological organisms allows researchers to discuss findings (including the discovery of new species).

  5. Glossary of scientific naming - Wikipedia

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    Linnaeus' Species Plantarum (1753) This is a list of terms and symbols used in scientific names for organisms, and in describing the names. For proper parts of the names themselves, see List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names. Note that many of the abbreviations are used with or without a stop.

  6. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    This is the principle that the scientific name of a species, and not of a taxon at any other rank, is a combination of two names; the use of a trinomen for the name of a subspecies and of uninominal names for taxa above the species group is in accord with this principle. [4]

  7. List of commonly used taxonomic affixes - Wikipedia

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    Frequently used to indicate maternal roles, this word should not be construed as translating directly to "mother" (Latin māter; Ancient Greek μήτηρ mḗtēr); aside from being a proper name, in Ancient Greek "maîa" can translate to "midwife" or "foster mother" and was used as an honorific address for older women, typically translated ...

  8. Template:Format species list - Wikipedia

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    Utility for formatting lists of species from taxonomic sources with or without authority. This template is intended to be substituted so should have zero transclusions. Usage

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Organisms

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    An interpolated name is italicized and placed in non-italic parentheses (round brackets); some examples are after a genus name to indicate a subgenus, after a genus group to denote an aggregate of species, after a species name to mean an aggregate of subspecies, after a genus and the word "section" or "sect." to provide a botanical genus ...