Nomen nudum

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In taxonomy, a nomen nudum ('naked name'; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate description.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Nomen nudum”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Wits University, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.