New proposals for naming lower-ranked taxa within the frame of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 329, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 823-840

  Dubois, Alain ^a  

^a USM 0602   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Expanded nomenclature; Nomenclatural parsimony; Nomenclatural ranks; Phylocode; Phylogenetic taxonomy; Phylogeography; Rana

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CONSERVATION GENETICS; NEW TAXON; NOMENCLATURE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TAXONOMY; ZOOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; FROG; GENUS; HYPOTHESIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; ORDO; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STANDARDIZATION; TAXONOMIC RANK; TAXONOMY; ZOOLOGY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; TERMINOLOGY; ZOOLOGY;

ANURA;

EID: 33749378732     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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