To agree or not to agree - The question of gender agreement in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

Nota Lepidopterologica

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 191-204

  Sommerer, Manfred D ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic databases.; Gender agreement; Generic combinations of species names; Nomenclature; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036449109     PISSN: 03427536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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