/ˈnɒmᵻnə ˈnjuːdə/, U.S. /ˈnɑmənə ˈn(j)udə/.nomen nudumn.
/ˌnəʊmɛn ˈnjuːdəm/, /ˌnəʊmən ˈnjuːdəm/, U.S. /ˌnoʊm(ə)n ˈn(j)ud(ə)m//ˈnɒmᵻnə ˈnjuːdə/, U.S. /ˈnɑmənə ˈn(j)udə/. Taxonomy.
A Latin name which was introduced without publication of an adequate description of the organism to which it was intended to be applied, or otherwise fails to conform to the appropriate code of biological nomenclature, and is therefore not available or valid as a result of that introduction. Occasionally: a vernacular name that cannot be attached to any species (see quot. 1957).
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nomen nudum1881
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nomen nudum1957
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 222 For nomina nuda he [sc. A. Günther] has had no respect, and he has been one of the most stalwart of those who have doubtless prevented the natural sciences from being buried beneath a load of nomenclatorial rubbish.
1900 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27 620 The name Sideranthus appears first in Fraser's Catalogue, but there only as a nomen nudum.
1925 A. S. Hitchcock Methods of Descriptive Systematic Bot. xii. 114 A new name appearing without description is called a nomen nudum.
1957 Notes & Queries Feb. 83/2 Since, however, no such variety has been described or bred, Chub-eel (× Aminguilla) remains a nomen nudum.
1969 E. Mayr Princ. Systematic Zool. xiii. 347 A nomen nudum has no standing in zoological nomenclature and is best never recorded, not even in synonymy.
1990 P. Dodson in K. Carpenter & P. J. Currie Dinosaur Systematics (1992) xvii. 233 M. fissus may be dismissed readily as a nomen nudum as it is based only on a partial pterygoid that Cope..took to be a squamosal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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