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(044) Proposal to amend Article 9.3
Author(s) -
Clementi Moreno,
Peruzzi Lorenzo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.12705/643.26
Subject(s) - citation , library science , computer science
In the Glossary of the Melbourne Code (McNeill & al. in Regnum Veg. 154. 2012), the definition of “original material” is incomplete because it does not allow for the fact that if the original material comprises the single specimen or illustration that was used by the author, or was designated by the author as the nomenclatural type, then it is the holotype, not an element that may be designated as the lectotype. To remedy this, we propose the following change to the Glossary: