Meanings
plural protologues · alternative protologus
- biologyAll the original material associated with a newly published name, comprising its description or diagnosis and any of a number of other elements such as illustrations, synonymy, etc.
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This is important, since the brief protologus of A. flava published in the Edinburgh Catalogus included only the first four lines from Solander’s original manuscript (our translation of Solander’s protologue: “calyx ovate, half the length of the upper petal claws, blade cordate-subrotund, stamens curved”) and therefore was incomplete and is inadequate for typification.
1987 July, Frederick Gustav Meyer, James W. Hardin, “Status of the name Aesculus flava Solander (Hippocastanaceae)” (pages 335–341), in S. A. Spongberg, E. B. Schmidt, P. S. Ashton, K. S. Bawa, P. F. Stevens, C. E. Wood, Jr., editors, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, volume 68, number 3, Lawrence: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 338–339
Origin
- Ancient Greekπρωτολόγος“speaking first”
- Englishprotologue
From Ancient Greek πρωτολόγος (prōtológos, “speaking first”). Equivalent to proto- + -logue.
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Dutch protoloog
- protoloogtaxonomy: all the original material associated with a newly published name
French protologue
- protologuetaxonomy: all the original material associated with a newly published name
Russian протоло́г
- протоло́г (protológ)taxonomy: all the original material associated with a newly published name
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