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1839 in paleontology

In addition to never being formally described, it may be a subjective synonym of the crocodilian Machimosaurus

A. caudata

Artan­the caudata, a synonym for Piper marginatum, the cake bush, Anesi wiwiri, marigold pepper, Ti Bombé in Creole or Hinojo, a plant species found in moist, shady spots in the Amazon rainforest in Surinam, French Guiana and Brazil

Acanthophora

:Acanthophora is also a synonym for Aralia.

Adelpha californica

It was treated generally as a species (though it included Adelpha eulalia as a synonym) until 1944, when the entomologists Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter and Bertram Maurice Hobby reclassified it as a subspecies of Adelpha bredowii.

Appam

It is a staple diet and a cultural synonym of the Nasranis (also known as Saint Thomas Christians or Syrian Christians) of Kerala, India.

Archinemapogon

But all these names had been used before – J.N.C.M. Denis & I. Schiffermüller had described a T. laterella in 1775 (a concealer moth, now known as Agonopterix laterella), C.A. Clerck a T. picarella as early as 1759 (now Nemapogon picarella), and F.P. von Schrank a T. arcuatella in 1802 (probably a junior synonym of the arctiid moth Dysauxes ancilla).

Aryan race

Thus in a 1989 article in Scientific American, Colin Renfrew uses the term "Aryan" as a synonym for "Indo-European".

Aspidella

:Aspidella is also a synonym for the mushroom genus Amanita.

Atropus

Atropoides, a pitviper genus for which Atropus is a junior synonym.

Bariadorgia

While Bariadorgia was first mentioned in 1822 growing in the commune of Sartène on Corsica under the synonym Carcajola, ampelographers such as Gustave Foëx of the Viticultural College at the University of Montpellier and colleague of Pierre Viala have speculated since at least the early 20th century that grape was likely introduced from neighboring Sardinia.

Brachodes albina

The taxonomic status of this species is unclear, it is possibly a synonym of Brachodes lucida.

Bridgesia

Bridgesia W.J.Hooker & Arnott (a rejected name) is a synonym of the Phytolaccaceae genus Ercilla.

C. coccinea

Cattleya coccinea, a synonym for Sophronitis coccinea, an orchid species occurring from Brazil to Argentina

Cabestana

Cabestana waterhousei (A. Adams & Angas, 1864) : synonym of Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)

Cathayornis

Paul Sereno et al., in 2002, considered Cathayornis a junior synonym of Sinornis.

Cilix asiatica

Cilix depalpata was previously treated as a synonym of Cilix asiatica, but was reinstated as a valid species in 2006.

Crataegus pubescens

a Sicilian hawthorn, sometimes considered to be a synonym of Crataegus orientalis

Dibothrosuchus

After reexamination of the holotype Wu and Chatterjee found D. xingsuensis to be a synonym of D. elaphros, leaving only one species in the genus.

Diplomorpha

, a taxonomic synonym of Wikstroemia, a genus of flowering shrubs in the Thymelaeaceae

E. kishinouyei

Euchiloglanis kishinouyei, a synonym for Euchiloglanis davidi, a catfish species found in the Yangtze drainage in China

Fremontia

, published in 1845, now considered a synonym of Sarcobatus (Greasewood), a plant genus in the family Sarcobataceae (formerly in Chenopodiaceae)

Frequency-dependent selection

Perhaps the best known early modern statement of the principle is Bryan Clarke's 1962 paper on apostatic selection (a synonym of negative frequency-dependent selection).

Geum coccineum

Geum coccineum Lindl. 1827, which is a synonym for Geum quellyon Sweet 1829, a species of avens native to Chile.

Giraudia

Giraudia Bourguignat, 1885 – a synonym of Bridouxia, a genus of freshwater snails in the family Paludomidae

Gnathosaurus

Fragments of Gnathosaurus jaw were first discovered in 1832 in the Solnhofen limestones of southern Germany but were mistaken for a piece of teleosaurid crocodile jaw, hence the synonym Crocodylus multidens.

H. nobilis

Hepatica nobilis, a synonym for Anemone hepatica, the kidneywort, liverwort, pennywort or common hepatica, an herbaceous plant species native to the forest floors of temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere

Hellinsia subochraceus

It is either treated as a synonym of subochraceus or as a valid species, Hellinsia australis.

Juan Ignacio Molina

Other authors dedicated Moliniopsis, a genus of Gramineae, as synonym of Molinia Schrank nom.illeg.

Keyur

However, if you change the spelling of keyur in Sanskrit from Dirgh "u" to Rasv "u", its meaning changes to peacock, which is a synonym for Mayur.

Latouchella

Latouchella was a type genus in the family Latouchellidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1989, however Latouchellidae is a synonym of Coreospiridae.

Mesochorista proavita

Specimens of Eoses triassica, sometimes considered a synonym of this species, were discovered in 1945 by the Australian entomologist Norman Tindale from the Mt. Crosby Insect Bed of Queensland, Australia.

Mesoptera

A name created in 1873 by Joseph Dalton Hooker, for a Rubiaceae genus, a conserved name, but now considered a synonym of Psydrax

Partita

Partita (also Partia, in German) was originally the name for a single-instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor till 1722, followed by Bach) and later German composers (notably Johann Sebastian Bach) used it for collections of musical pieces, as a synonym for suite.

Peter Schousboe

Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower Salvia interrupta; the bushwillow genus Schousboea (now considered a synonym of Combretum) was named in his honour.

Political suicide

Politicide has several meanings but one mentioned by the Oxford English Dictionary is as a synonym for Political suicide.

Psilogramma menephron

Psilogramma casuarinae from eastern Australia was long treated as a synonym, but is now thought to be a distinct species.

Pycnoloma

For the synonym of the fern genus, see Selliguea.

Rapaninae

Sistrum Montfort, 1810 : synonym of Drupa Röding, 1798

Real team chess

Otherwise the expression of "Real Teamchess" is a synonym of Tactical Team Chess.

Rhacophorus rhodopus

So the actual situation seems to be that the three taxa refer to two, not three species, with R. htunwini being a junior synonym of R. bipunctatus – possibly a restricted-range endemic of upland forest at the eastern end of the Himalayas, though it might occur south to Malaysia –, and R. namdaphaensis a junior synonym of R. rhodopus, a species that ranges widely from eastern India to the east and south and also occurs in lower-lying regions.

Scopula antiloparia

The species is possibly a junior synonym of Scopula minorata, based on genital examination of type material at The Natural History Museum, London, and Universitets Zoologiska Institut, Uppsala, Sweden.

Spegazzinia

:Spegazzinia is also a synonym of the cactus genus Rebutia.

Tonnidae

Dolium Lamarck, 1801 : synonym of Tonna Brunnich, 1771

Trabutiella

, 1914 – a synonym of Phyllachora Nitschke ex Fuckel, a genus of fungus in the Ascomycota

Trionyx javanicus

Leith's softshell turtle (Nilssonia leithii), which has a synonym of Trionyx javanicus.

Uropeltis grandis

a synonym for Uropeltis smithi, a non-venomous shield tail snake species found mainly in the Anamallay forests of Southern Indian

Vulgar

Vulgarism, an instance of non-standard or non-elite usage in a language, not to be confused with "vulgarity" as a synonym for "obscenity" or "profanity"

Western trumpeter whiting

The species has only ever been assigned one synonym, S. maculata burrus by Whitley in 1948 with apparently no reason given for the reassignment, although McKay also treated the species as a subspecies of S. maculata in his comprehensive revision of the Sillaginidae.

Zaloora

Among Muslims, "Mir" became a synonym of "sayyid" as meaning a "relative of prophet Muhammad".


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