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Bionomina Vol. 22 No. 1: 28 September 2021 - Article
Eponyms as scientific recognition to Queen Astrid and King Leopold III of Belgium
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Bionomina Vol. 22 No. 1: 28 September 2021 - Article
Science versus vernacular: should some taxa of animals and plants be renamed according to ‘indigenous’ practices?
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Bionomina Vol. 22 No. 1: 28 September 2021 - Correspondence
On the availability of the recently proposed nomen Leptodactylus avivoca (Anura, Leptodactylidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 22 No. 1: 28 September 2021 - Correspondence
Fabrikirkia nom. nov (Annelida, Sabellida, Fabriciidae), new replacement name for the junior homonym Parafabricia Fitzhugh, 1992
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Bionomina Vol. 22 No. 1: 28 September 2021 - Correspondence
Perugnidiella nom. nov., a new replacement nomen for Peruana Özdikmen, 2008 (Opiliones, Cosmetidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 22 No. 1: 28 September 2021 - Correspondence
Tritesia, a new substitute name for Tetrisia Walker, 1867 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 22 No. 1: 28 September 2021 - Correspondence
Corrections to the nomenclature of sawskates (Rajiformes, Sclerorhynchoidei)
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Bionomina Vol. 23 No. 1: 25 October 2021 - Monograph
The nomenclatural status of the amphibian and reptile nomina introduced by La Cepède in his Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens, with comments on various questions of zoological nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 24 No. 1: 8 November 2021 - Article
Optical discs in zoological nomenclature: problems and proposed solution
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Bionomina Vol. 24 No. 1: 8 November 2021 - Article
Nomenclatural status of Pyuridae and Bolteniidae (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) with comments on several included genera
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Bionomina Vol. 24 No. 1: 8 November 2021 - Article
On the authorship and publication dates of Theraphosa and Theraphosidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae): a clarification
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Bionomina Vol. 24 No. 1: 8 November 2021 - Article
It is high time that taxonomists follow the Code.
4. Amphibia of Indochina
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Bionomina Vol. 24 No. 1: 8 November 2021 - Correspondence
Damsel in distress: is the nomenclature of Lachesis melanocephala Solórzano & Cerdas, 1986 (Serpentes, Viperidae) in need of rescue?
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Bionomina Vol. 25 No. 1: 17 December 2021 - Article
A reply to ‘Science versus vernacular’: should some taxa of animals and plants be renamed according to ‘indigenous’ practices?
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Bionomina Vol. 25 No. 1: 17 December 2021 - Article
Just metamorphosed amphibians: imagos or metamorphs?
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Bionomina Vol. 25 No. 1: 17 December 2021 - Article
Whence Orycteropus? The correct authorship and date for the generic name of the aardvark (Mammalia, Tubulidentata, Orycteropodidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 25 No. 1: 17 December 2021 - Article
Barton and the forgotten description of Salamandra horrida (Amphibia, Urodela): story of a rediscovery
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Bionomina Vol. 25 No. 1: 17 December 2021 - Article
Recommendations concerning the presentation of synonymic and related lists in zootaxonomy: the example of the family Cryptobranchidae Fitzinger, 1826 (Amphibia, Urodela)
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Bionomina Vol. 25 No. 1: 17 December 2021 - Article
Additional comments on the types and nomina of several North American ratsnakes (Pantherophis obsoletus complex, Colubridae, Serpentes)
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Bionomina Vol. 25 No. 1: 17 December 2021 - Article
The correct name for the North African rock lizard is Agama bibronii A. Duméril in Duméril & Duméril, 1851, not Agama impalearis Boettger, 1874 (Reptilia, Squamata)
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Bionomina Vol. 25 No. 1: 17 December 2021 - Article
Conversion of the names Pyxicephaloidea, Pyxicephalidae and Pyxicephalinae (Anura, Ranoidea) into phylogenetic nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 26 No. 1: 8 June 2022 - Article
Type species of genera in zoological nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 26 No. 1: 8 June 2022 - Article
On some grammatical errors in the nomenclature of longhorn beetles and on nomenclatural anarchy in the Catalogue of Life (Insecta, Coleoptera,
Cerambycidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 26 No. 1: 8 June 2022 - Article
The proper authorship of the nomen Ololygon heyeri (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 26 No. 1: 8 June 2022 - Article
Lygosoma megalops Annandale, 1906 (Squamata, Scincidae): a junior synonym of Lankascincus fallax (Peters, 1860)
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Bionomina Vol. 26 No. 1: 8 June 2022 - Correspondence
Another new, unavailable nomen (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Indian herpetological taxonomy
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Bionomina Vol. 26 No. 1: 8 June 2022 - Correspondence
Alvininia, a replacement name for Alvinia Sytchevskaya, 1999 (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii, Perleididae), preoccupied
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Bionomina Vol. 27 No. 1: 19 July 2022 - Article
Nomenclatural solutions for diagnosing ‘cryptic’ species using molecular and morphological data facilitate a taxonomic revision of the Black-bellied Salamanders (Urodela, Desmognathus ‘quadramaculatus’) from the southern Appalachian Mountains
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Bionomina Vol. 27 No. 1: 19 July 2022 - Article
The taxonomic and nomenclatural status of the nomina Salamandra fusca Green, 1818 and Salamandra quadramaculata Holbrook, 1840 (Amphibia, Urodela)
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Bionomina Vol. 27 No. 1: 19 July 2022 - Article
The nomenclatural case of Holopyga italica Dahlbom, 1845 and Colpopyga flavipes (Eversmann, 1858) (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)
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Bionomina Vol. 27 No. 1: 19 July 2022 - Article
On the authorship of Canthon rutilans cyanescens ‘Harold, 1868’ (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae, Deltochilini): the treatment of varieties and nomina nuda by a 19th-century zoologist
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Bionomina Vol. 28 No. 1: 25 August 2022 - Article
The Linz Zoocode project. Second report of activities (2020).
Nomenclatural availability. 1. What is nomenclatural availability?
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Bionomina Vol. 28 No. 1: 25 August 2022 - Article
The Linz Zoocode project. Third report of activities (2020).
Nomenclatural availability. 2. Work availability
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Bionomina Vol. 28 No. 1: 25 August 2022 - Article
The Linz Zoocode project. Fourth report of activities (2021).
Nomenclatural availability. 3. Paper publication
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Bionomina Vol. 28 No. 1: 25 August 2022 - Article
The Linz Zoocode project. Fifth report of activities (2022).
Nomenclatural availability. 4. Electronic publication
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Bionomina Vol. 29 No. 1: 20 September 2022 - Monograph
Fahrenholz’s rule is not a valid methodology for determining species limits in chewing lice (Psocodea, Phthiraptera)
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Bionomina Vol. 30 No. 1: 20 December 2022 - Monograph
Kalyptoidy: the nomenclatural status of new zoological nomina originally published as synonyms, with examples in herpetology and comments on taxonominal databases
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Bionomina Vol. 31 No. 1: 20 December 2022 - Article
Nomenclatural acts in zoological nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 31 No. 1: 20 December 2022 - Article
The Linz Zoocode project. Sixth report of activities (2022). Nomenclatural availability. 5. Optical disc publication
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Bionomina Vol. 31 No. 1: 20 December 2022 - Article
The authorship and date of the familial nomen Dermochelyidae (Chelonii)
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Bionomina Vol. 31 No. 1: 20 December 2022 - Article
The nomenclature of Eurasian giant salamanders (Amphibia, Urodela, Andrias)
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Bionomina Vol. 31 No. 1: 20 December 2022 - Article
Reflections on Pavlinov (2021): understanding and expanding the study of the history and philosophy of nomenclature, a comprehensive state of the art
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Bionomina Vol. 31 No. 1: 20 December 2022 - Article
Putting the cart before the horse: SeqCode’s attempt to solve systematics issues with changes to nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 31 No. 1: 20 December 2022 - Article
A good practice: why we should suggest vernacular names for new plant species
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Bionomina Vol. 32 No. 1: 31 July 2023 - Article
Species nomina corrections in the Cerambycidae (Insecta, Coleoptera), concerning specific epithets based on letters used to refer to characters of taxa
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Bionomina Vol. 32 No. 1: 31 July 2023 - Article
Rediscovery of a syntype of Chalcocopris hesperus (Olivier, 1789) (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae), a possible specimen from Captain Cook’s first voyage round the globe (1768–1771)
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Bionomina Vol. 32 No. 1: 31 July 2023 - Article
Calotes megapogon (Squamata, Agamidae, Draconinae): nomenclatural and taxonomic ramifications of the naming of an undescribed species
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Bionomina Vol. 32 No. 1: 31 July 2023 - Article
Why Toxicocalamus longhagen Roberts, Iova & Austin, 2022 (Serpentes, Elapidae) is a taxonomic nomen dubium
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Bionomina Vol. 32 No. 1: 31 July 2023 - Correspondence
Systematic sexism: gender-neutral rule changes are needed
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Bionomina Vol. 33 No. 1: 10 Nov. 2023 - Monograph
The publication dates of the printed issues of the Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France (1876–2015)
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Bionomina Vol. 34 No. 1: 17 Nov. 2023 - Article
The document that is not there
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Bionomina Vol. 34 No. 1: 17 Nov. 2023 - Article
Problems with the availability of zoological nomenclatural acts published online: the case of the Journal of Herpetology
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Bionomina Vol. 34 No. 1: 17 Nov. 2023 - Article
Chironius scurrula, the correct nomen for Chironius scurrulus (Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae), with a list of the correct spellings of specific epithets currently in use in this genus
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Bionomina Vol. 34 No. 1: 17 Nov. 2023 - Article
Replacement names for two Asian species of Psila Meigen, 1803, sensu lato (Diptera, Psilidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 35 No. 1: 15 Dec. 2023 - Article
The thylacine (Thylacynus cynocephalus): a rebirth starting from the name
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Bionomina Vol. 35 No. 1: 15 Dec. 2023 - Article
Redescription of two Bornean gekkonid lizard species of the Cyrtodactylus consobrinus (Peters, 1871) complex with comments on online supplementary material
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Bionomina Vol. 35 No. 1: 15 Dec. 2023 - Article
Etymology of nomina of Amphibians and Reptiles of the French Antilles
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Bionomina Vol. 35 No. 1: 15 Dec. 2023 - Article
Is Rana pullus Smith, 1921 a junior homonym of Rana gracilis var. pulla Stoliczka, 1870: a nomenclatural analysis of nouns in apposition created by Malcolm A. Smith
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Bionomina Vol. 35 No. 1: 15 Dec. 2023 - Article
The scientific legacy of Eugène Henri Joseph Leloup (1902–1981)
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Bionomina Vol. 36 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023 - Article
The taxonominal status of the nomina Lesueuria Milne Edwards, 1841 and Lesueuriidae Chun, 1880, and introduction of a new genus and a new family for Lesueuria pinnata Ralph & Kaberry, 1950, as well as an additional new species of the new genus (Ctenophora, Lobata)
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Bionomina Vol. 36 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023 - Article
The nomenclatural status of Agama cristata Merrem, 1819 and Corytophanes Schlegel, 1826 (Squamata, Corytophanidae) and of other tropical lizard nomina, with comments on some tricky issues of zoological nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 36 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023 - Article
The original description, authorship and typification of Hapsidophrys smaragdina (Serpentes, Colubridae)
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Bionomina Vol. 36 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023 - Article
Evaluating nomina of the phylum Ciliophora: examples for increasing work load of serious taxonomists
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Bionomina Vol. 36 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023 - Article
LTH 1. Literatura Taxonomica Herpetologica.1. Presentation
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Bionomina Vol. 36 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023 - Article
LTH 2. Literatura Taxonomica Herpetologica.2. Glossary
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Bionomina Vol. 36 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023 - Article
LTH 3. Literatura Taxonomica Herpetologica.3. Year 1758
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Bionomina Vol. 36 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023 - Article
LTH 4. Literatura Taxonomica Herpetologica. 4. Year 1759
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Bionomina Vol. 37 No. 1: 19 Mar. 2024 - Article
On the validity of the recently described northern green anaconda Eunectes akayima (Squamata, Serpentes)
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Bionomina Vol. 37 No. 1: 19 Mar. 2024 - Article
Nomenclatural problems raised by the recent description of a new anaconda species (Squamata, Serpentes, Boidae), with a nomenclatural review of the genus Eunectes
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Bionomina Vol. 37 No. 1: 19 Mar. 2024 - Article
The inordinate unpopularity of changing all eponymous bird and other organismal names
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Bionomina Vol. 37 No. 1: 19 Mar. 2024 - Correspondence
Wagler vs. Fitzinger: Leposternon microcephalus, a fight over gender (Sauria, Amphisbaenidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 38 No. 1: In progress - Article
Thorictus cirenaicus John, 1965 and Thorictus cirenaicus A. Fiori, 1914, a peculiar case of concomitant subjective synonymy and primary homonymy (Coleoptera, Dermestidae, Thorictinae)
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Bionomina Vol. 38 No. 1: In progress - Article
The specimens of green anaconda, Boa murina Linnaeus, 1758 (Squamata, Serpentes, Boidae, Eunectes), from the collection of Albertus Seba, and recommendations for tracing historical specimens
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Bionomina Vol. 38 No. 1: In progress - Article
Conservation of Coluber lanceolatus as the valid name of the Martinique fer-de-lance (no matter who its author is)
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Bionomina Vol. 1 No. 1: 24 Dec. 2010 - Editorial
Bionomina, a forum for the discussion of nomenclatural and terminological issues in biology
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Bionomina Vol. 1 No. 1: 24 Dec. 2010 - Article
Circumscriptional names of higher taxa in Hexapoda
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Bionomina Vol. 1 No. 1: 24 Dec. 2010 - Correspondence
Being obsessive-compulsive about terminology and nomenclature is not a vice, but a virtue
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Bionomina Vol. 1 No. 1: 24 Dec. 2010 - Correspondence
Constant Duméril’s Zoologie Analytique was published in 1805
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Bionomina Vol. 1 No. 1: 24 Dec. 2010 - Correspondence
Why terms matter to biological theories: the term “origin” as used by Darwin
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Bionomina Vol. 2 No. 1: 18 Feb. 2011 - Monograph
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature must be drastically improved before it is too late
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Bionomina Vol. 3 No. 1: 21 Apr. 2011 - Article
Translating natural selection: true concept, but false term?
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Bionomina Vol. 3 No. 1: 21 Apr. 2011 - Article
Introducing the Draft BioCode (2011)
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Bionomina Vol. 3 No. 1: 21 Apr. 2011 - Article
Draft BioCode (2011) Principles and Rules regulating the naming of organisms New draft, revised in November 2010
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Bionomina Vol. 3 No. 1: 21 Apr. 2011 - Article
A zoologist’s viewpoint on the Draft BioCode
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Bionomina Vol. 3 No. 1: 21 Apr. 2011 - Article
Viewing the Draft BioCode as a protistologist and museum employee
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Bionomina Vol. 3 No. 1: 21 Apr. 2011 - Book review
The rich but confusing terminology of biological nomenclature: a first step towards a comprehensive glossary
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Bionomina Vol. 4 No. 1: 22 Dec. 2011 - Article
Signs and terminology: Science caught between language and perception
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Bionomina Vol. 4 No. 1: 22 Dec. 2011 - Article
The language of evolution: sources of misconception in descriptions of evolutionary processes in non-specialised scientific discourse
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Bionomina Vol. 4 No. 1: 22 Dec. 2011 - Article
The problem of hemihomonyms and the on-line hemihomonyms database (HHDB)
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Bionomina Vol. 4 No. 1: 22 Dec. 2011 - Book review
The multiple meanings of ancient zoological terms
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Bionomina Vol. 5 No. 1: 30 Mar. 2012 - Article
Nomenclature, terminology and language
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Bionomina Vol. 5 No. 1: 30 Mar. 2012 - Article
The distinction between introduction of a new nomen and subsequent use of a previously introduced nomen in zoological nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 6 No. 1: 28 June 2013 - Article
Zygoidy, a new nomenclatural concept
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Bionomina Vol. 6 No. 1: 28 June 2013 - Article
Translating “natural selection” in Japanese: from “shizen tōta” to “shizen sentaku”, and back?
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Bionomina Vol. 6 No. 1: 28 June 2013 - Correspondence
Notes on the original description of the maned three-toed sloth, Bradypus torquatus (Mammalia, Pilosa, Bradypodidae), by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1811
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Bionomina Vol. 6 No. 1: 28 June 2013 - Correspondence
The misleading use of the terms parent, child, ancestor and descendant in databases dealing with biological evolution and taxonomy
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Bionomina Vol. 7 No. 1: 6 June 2014 - Article
Proposal of an integrated framework of biological taxonomy: a phylogenetic taxonomy, with the method of using names with standard endings in clade nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 7 No. 1: 6 June 2014 - Article
Primary, secondary and tertiary syntypes and virtual lectotype designation in zoological nomenclature, with comments on the recent designation of a lectotype for Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758
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Bionomina Vol. 9 No. 1: 24 December 2015 - Article
Forming taxon names from Greek words
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Bionomina Vol. 9 No. 1: 24 December 2015 - Article
What is an anonymous publication? Is the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature anonymous?
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Bionomina Vol. 9 No. 1: 24 December 2015 - Article
Stability under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: a bag of problems affecting nomenclature and taxonomy
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Bionomina Vol. 9 No. 1: 24 December 2015 - Article
An often overlooked Rule of the Code, and its bearing on the authorship and date of the nomen Proteidae (Amphibia, Urodela)
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Bionomina Vol. 9 No. 1: 24 December 2015 - Article
On the original description of the Sacred Shrew, Sorex religiosa I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826 [nec 1827] (Mammalia: Soricidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 8 No. 1: 18 June 2015 - Article
Further proposals about higher zoological nomenclature, and a lesson of humility: the solution to a recent controversy about the authorship and date of the nomen Amphibia had already been published one century ago
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Bionomina Vol. 8 No. 1: 18 June 2015 - Article
Zoological nomina in the century of extinctions: new proposals
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Bionomina Vol. 8 No. 1: 18 June 2015 - Correspondence
On inconsistency in, and undesirable side effects of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 10 No. 1: 11 November 2016 - Article
Classes, taxa and categories in hierarchical virus classification: a review of current debates on definitions and names of virus species
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Bionomina Vol. 10 No. 1: 11 November 2016 - Article
The nomenclatural status of the amphibian nomina published by Luuc Bauer from 1985 to 1994, with comments on the Rules of the Code concerning the techniques of printing
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Bionomina Vol. 10 No. 1: 11 November 2016 - Article
Notes on the nomenclature of Sicista Griffith, 1827 (Rodentia: Sminthidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 10 No. 1: 11 November 2016 - Article
Darevskia and Iberolacerta (Reptilia, Lacertidae): Arribas, 1997 or 1999? The correct dating of two nomenclatural acts affecting Palearctic lizards, and validation of the name Caucasilacerta Harris, Arnold & Thomas, 1998
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Bionomina Vol. 10 No. 1: 11 November 2016 - Article
Acanthophis cryptamydros Maddock, Ellis, Doughty, Smith & Wüster, 2015 is an invalid junior synonym of Acanthophis lancasteri Wells & Wellington, 1985 (Squamata, Elapidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 11 No. 1: 4 March 2017 - Article
The nomenclatural status of Hysaplesia, Hylaplesia, Dendrobates and related nomina (Amphibia, Anura), with general comments on zoological nomenclature and its governance, as well as on taxonomic databases and websites
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Bionomina Vol. 11 No. 1: 4 March 2017 - Article
Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the subfamily Acridinae of the family Hylidae (Amphibia, Anura)
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Bionomina Vol. 11 No. 1: 4 March 2017 - Article
Unraveling a 150 years old controversy: Calamoichthys Smith, 1866 is the valid name for the African Reedfish (Cladistii: Polypteriformes), with comments about the availability of involuntarily proposed zoological names
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Bionomina Vol. 12 No. 1: 25 March 2017 - Editorial
Specimens and zoological nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 12 No. 1: 25 March 2017 - Article
The need for reference specimens in zoological taxonomy and nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 12 No. 1: 25 March 2017 - Article
Assessing biodiversity: a pain in the neck
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Bionomina Vol. 12 No. 1: 25 March 2017 - Article
On the use of photography in science and taxonomy: how images can provide a basis for their own authentication
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Bionomina Vol. 12 No. 1: 25 March 2017 - Article
Photography-based taxonomy is still really inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. A reply to Thorpe (2017)
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Bionomina Vol. 12 No. 1: 25 March 2017 - Article
What lies beneath the controversy as to the necessity of physical types for describing new species?
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Bionomina Vol. 12 No. 1: 25 March 2017 - Article
Loosing the connection between the observation and the specimen: a by-product of the digital era or a trend inherited from general biology?
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Bionomina Vol. 12 No. 1: 25 March 2017 - Article
Diagnoses in zoological taxonomy and nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 13 No. 1: 20 December 2018 - Article
Familial nomina in harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones)
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Bionomina Vol. 13 No. 1: 20 December 2018 - Article
Reflections on the growing use of sounds in systematics and synecology: why an acoustic signal cannot become an onomatophore
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Bionomina Vol. 13 No. 1: 20 December 2018 - Article
Onymotopes in zoological nomenclature: some additional terms, with fixation of a lectonymotope for Xenopus petersii Bocage, 1895 (Amphibia, Anura)
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Bionomina Vol. 13 No. 1: 20 December 2018 - Article
The Relictus case: it is high time that taxonomists follow the Code’s requirements for nomenclatural availability and validity of new zoological nomina
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Bionomina Vol. 13 No. 1: 20 December 2018 - Article
“If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice”
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Bionomina Vol. 13 No. 1: 20 December 2018 - Article
Natural history collecting and the arrogance of the modern Ark researcher
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Bionomina Vol. 14 No. 1: 25 February 2019 - Monograph
The nomina Anura, Urodela, Ecaudata and Caudata, credited to ‘Fischer von Waldheim, 1813’, do not exist, with comments on the nomenclature of higher zoological taxa and on the authorships and dates of other amphibian nomina
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Bionomina Vol. 15 No. 1: 2 July 2019 - Article
The authorship and date of five generic nomina of Squamata and Amphibia published by Cuvier (1816, 1829), with recourse to and comments on twenty Articles of the Code
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Bionomina Vol. 15 No. 1: 2 July 2019 - Article
The availability, authorships and dates of tribal names in the Sigmodontinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae) current classification
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Bionomina Vol. 15 No. 1: 2 July 2019 - Correspondence
Obscure priority: on the authorship of the nomen Sironidae (Arachnida, Opiliones)
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Bionomina Vol. 15 No. 1: 2 July 2019 - Correspondence
A new replacement name for Vitta Burt, 1938 (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea, Dilepididae)
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Bionomina Vol. 15 No. 1: 2 July 2019 - Correspondence
A justified emendation for a specific nomen of shark (Chondrichthyes), with comments on some Articles of the Code
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Bionomina Vol. 15 No. 1: 2 July 2019 - Correspondence
The nomenclatural status of the generic nomina Epirinus Dejean, 1833 and Epirhinus Agassiz, 1846 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)
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Bionomina Vol. 15 No. 1: 2 July 2019 - Correspondence
The correct spelling of the nomen of the Yunnan giant flying squirrel Petaurista yunanensis Anderson, 1875 (Rodentia, Sciuridae)
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Bionomina Vol. 15 No. 1: 2 July 2019 - Correspondence
A new synonymy in the genus Homoeomma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with comments on potential homonymy
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Bionomina Vol. 16 No. 1: 2 December 2019 - Article
Zoological nomina with typus or typicus as the specific epithet
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Bionomina Vol. 16 No. 1: 2 December 2019 - Article
Capitalised epithets in the works of Linnaeus (1758‒1767): findings and consequences in herpetology
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Bionomina Vol. 16 No. 1: 2 December 2019 - Article
Comments on the nomenclature of genus- and family-series taxa of notothenioid fishes (Perciformes, Notothenioidei)
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Bionomina Vol. 16 No. 1: 2 December 2019 - Correspondence
Taxonomic status of Chironius laurenti Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993 and of the long-forgotten Chironius dixoni Wiest, 1978 (Squamata, Serpentes)
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Bionomina Vol. 17 No. 1: 17 December 2019 - Monograph
The Linz Zoocode project: a set of new proposals regarding the terminology, the Principles and Rules of zoological nomenclature. First report of activities (2014‒2019)
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Bionomina Vol. 18 No. 1: 3 February 2020 - Article
Allocation of nomina to taxa in zoological nomenclature
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Bionomina Vol. 18 No. 1: 3 February 2020 - Article
The status regarding publication date and availability of taxonomic works published online without proper Zoobank preregistration
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Bionomina Vol. 18 No. 1: 3 February 2020 - Correspondence
Authorship of the generic name Pochytoides (Araneae, Salticidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 19 No. 1: 10 September 2020 - Article
Herpetological higher taxa nomina 1. Introduction and methodology
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Bionomina Vol. 19 No. 1: 10 September 2020 - Article
Patronymic particle and bibliographic citation
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Bionomina Vol. 19 No. 1: 10 September 2020 - Article
Incorrect authorship assignments and repeated specific epithets: five cases of the use of homographs by Roewer in harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones)
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Bionomina Vol. 19 No. 1: 10 September 2020 - Article
Grammatical gender and corrections of the nomina of the species of Larifuga Loman, 1898 (Opiliones, Triaenonychidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 19 No. 1: 10 September 2020 - Article
The nomenclatural status of new nematode nomina proposed in 1993 in the doctoral thesis of Christian Bussau, entitled Taxonomische und ökologische Untersuchungen an Nematoden des Peru-Beckens (Nematoda)
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Bionomina Vol. 19 No. 1: 10 September 2020 - Article
Comments on the nomenclatural status and validity of several family-series nomina in Actiniaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa)
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Bionomina Vol. 19 No. 1: 10 September 2020 - Article
The nomenclatural status of Zaocys carinatus Günther, 1864 (Squamata, Serpentes)
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Bionomina Vol. 20 No. 1: 31 December 2020 - Article
Herpetological higher taxa nomina 2. Anura Duméril, 1805
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Bionomina Vol. 20 No. 1: 31 December 2020 - Article
Herpetological higher taxa nomina 3. Urodela Duméril, 1805
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Bionomina Vol. 20 No. 1: 31 December 2020 - Article
Herpetological higher taxa nomina 4. Batrachia Brongniart, 1800
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Bionomina Vol. 20 No. 1: 31 December 2020 - Article
Nawaran Esquerré, Donnellan, Brennan, Lemmon, Lemmon, Zaher, Grazziotin & Keogh, 2020 is an invalid junior synonym of Nyctophilopython Wells & Wellington, 1985 (Squamata, Pythonidae): simple priority without Zoobank pre-registration
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Bionomina Vol. 20 No. 1: 31 December 2020 - Correspondence
The authorship of the name of the megatooth shark Carcharocles (Lamniformes, Otodontidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Editorial
Bionomina, a forum for biological terminology and nomenclature: the first 10 years
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Article
Herpetological higher taxa nomina. 5. Anura, Urodela, Batrachia: addenda and corrigenda
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Article
Herpetological higher taxa nomina. 6. Gymnophiona Rafinesque, 1814
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Article
Herpetological higher taxa nomina. 7. Lissamphibia Gadow, 1898
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Article
Herpetological higher taxa nomina. 8. Amphibia Blainville, 1816
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Correspondence
The authorship and date of the generic nomen Typhlops and of the familial nomen Typhlopidae (Serpentes)
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Correspondence
It is high time that taxonomists follow the Code. 2. The Virgotyphlops case (Serpentes, Typhlopidae
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Correspondence
It is high time that taxonomists follow the Code. 3. The Bungarus romulusi case (Serpentes, Elapidae)
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Article
Nomenclatural comments on and corrections of nomina of some non-marine fossil gastropods
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Bionomina Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021 - Correspondence
Authorship and date of five family-series nomina in Oligochaeta (Annelida): Lumbricidae, Naididae, Enchytraeidae, Tubificidae and Lumbriculidae
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