EXERCISE 4

The photocopy below is of the nomenclator to Nardia insecta.

QUESTIONS

1. What does "auct." mean?

2. What does "(p. p.)" mean?

3. Is this a proper communication? How is this message to be communicated according to the ICBN?

4. What does "nomen nudum" mean?

5. Which of the listed names are based on the type specimen (assumed)?

6. Which names show a change in position?

7. Which names show a change in rank?

8. Which names are basionyms?

9. Names 3, 4, and 6: what "-onym" term(s) can be used to describe them?

10. If a Latin diagnosis were furnished for Nardia crassula today, who would be the author of the name?

11. If one wished to give credit to Lorbeer in this situation, how could this be done in the name citation?