Source: http://iczn.org/nontaxonomy/term/462
Timestamp: 2013-05-25 00:16:33
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Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 23', 'Art. 7', 'Art. 16', 'Art. 12', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 24', 'Art. 25', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 26', 'Art. 27', 'Art. 3']

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In order to be established, a name must be (a) new, (b) have the form required by Art. 23–31, and (c) comply with the special provisions of Art. 7–11.
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5.2. On or after the relevant future date to be determined (Div. III.4), case by case, for the various categories of organisms, names, and nomenclatural acts, any name of a new taxon, replacement name, or new combination, and any nomenclatural act (Art. 16.6, 17.4, 18.8 & 19.5), must be registered in order to be established (see Art. 12).
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Recommendation 5A.1
Authors who submit names or nomenclatural acts for registration that have not previously been formally published should expedite formal publication as soon as possible after registration, and should endeavour to provide a reference to that prospective publication in their registration submission.
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Recommendation 5A.2
Authors should register new names and nomenclatural acts on acceptance of the corresponding text for formal publication.
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Recommendation 5A.3
In the subsequent formal publication of a new taxon of which the name has already been registered, or of new nomenclatural acts, the registration parameters (number, date) should be mentioned, and the spelling and relevant attributes (e.g. type, validating description) of the name should be given exactly as registered.
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The establishment of any family-group name is deemed to automatically establish co-ordinate names at the other rank of the family group. The co-ordinate names are formed from the same generic name and have the same authorship and date.
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All subfamily names established under the zoological Code are, under the BioCode, treated as simultaneously established names of profamilies (Art. 3.2; see also Art. 24 Note 1).
Note 1. Names of subfamilies established under the botanical or bacteriological Code maintain the former subfamily termination-oideae (Art. 25.1) and are intermediate in rank between profamily and tribe (Art. 3.2).
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The establishment of any genus-group name is deemed to automatically establish an identical co-ordinate name at the other rank of the genus group. The co-ordinate names have the same type, authorship and date.
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All names of subgenera established under the zoological Code are, under the BioCode, treated as simultaneously established names of progenera (Art. 3.2; see also Art. 26 Note 1).
Note 2. Names of subgenera (subgen.) have the same form as those of other infrageneric taxa, for instance, sections (Art. 27), and are intermediate in rank between progenus and section (Art. 3.2).
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The establishment of any species-group name is deemed to automatically establish a co-ordinate name at the other rank of the species group. The co-ordinate names have identical final epithets, the same type, authorship and date.
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