protologue Taxonomy.
(ˈprəʊtɒlɒg)
Also protolog.
[f. proto- + -logue.]
The description and other details accompanying the first publication of the taxonomic name of a plant or animal.
| 1905 Schuchert & Buckman in Science 9 June 900/1 For the sake of accuracy we suggest that the original description by words (type-description) be called the protolog. 1939 Jrnl. Bot. LXXVII. 206 A ‘protologue’ is the printed matter (description etc.) accompanying the original publication of a name or epithet. 1957 W. T. Stearn Linnaeus's Species Plantarum xiii. 126 For each Linnaean species all the constituent elements in Linnaeus's protologue must be taken into consideration. 1970 Watsonia VIII. 43 The entire protologue reads as follows. |