binomen
Noun
Meaning
A name having two parts.
(taxonomy) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
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Such a name is called a binomial name (which may be shortened to just "binomial"), a binomen or a scientific name; more informally it is also called a Latin name.
No other species of animal can have this same binomen (the technical term for a binomial in the case of animals).
Plumier's name was not a binomen and moreover published before Species Plantarum, so it has no status.
The first binomen published after 1753 was Lamarck's Annona dodecapetala (1786).
Together, these two parts are referred to as a "species name" or "binomen" in the zoological code; or "species name", "binomial", or "binary combination" in the botanical code.