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The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has used its plenary power to conserve existing usage of the name Columba livia Gmelin, 1789 for the common domestic pigeon by granting it precedence over the senior subjective synonyms C. domestica Linnaeus, 1758, C. gutturosa Linnaeus, 1758, and C. cucullata Linnaeus, 1758. The ICZN has also used its plenary power to conserve existing usage of the trinomen Columba livia domestica Linnaeus, 1758 by setting aside Article 24.1 of the Code and granting domestica Linnaeus, 1758 precedence over gutturosa Linnaeus, 1758 and cucullata Linnaeus, 1758 whenever either of the latter two are considered a synonym of it.
http://dx.doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a061
Opinion:
Opinion 2424
Volume/Issue:
75
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