Protologue

• Title

  Protologue

• Definition

  A scientic publication in which a new species is described or a scientific publication in which more than one new species are described, in the latter case each of the descriptions is the protologue of the new species.

• Notes

  One of the first steps in producing a a monograph is to gather all of the protologues of the taxa under study.

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