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Noun

protonym (plural protonyms)

  • (zoology, taxonomy) The first legitimate name of a taxon, on which the currently accepted name is based.
    • ✤ The protonym of Macroscyphus appears to be Nees von Esenbeck’s (1817) [genus] Peziza…1
    • ✤ * Protonyms form the name for later revised opinions on a taxon concept as implicitly or explicitly circumscribed in a subsequent publication…*2
  • (prescriptive, uncommon) The first/original entity after which another entity is named without the entities being related. If the entities are related, then the original entity is the eponym of the subsequent entities.

Etymology

From proto- +‎ -onym.

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Footnotes

  1. 1968, Mien A. Rifai, The Australasian Pezizales in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: ↩

  2. 2005, Bertram Ludäscher, Louiqa Raschid, Data integration in the life sciences: ↩

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