Subsp. or ssp. ?

[Vid Strpic]

At 16:38 22.01.96, Robin Leech wrote:

>By sort of an international agreement, there are some abbreviations that
>are used in both botany and zoology.  They are these:
>
>1.  species (singular) =        sp.
>2.  Species (plural)   =        spp.
>3.  subspecies (sing.) =        ssp.
>4.  subspecies (pl.)   =        sspp.
>

Interesting. I was informed that, according to ICBN, one _must_ not write
ssp. as abbreviation in a taxonomic (or syntaxonomic) paper, in which case
the name becomes invalid.

Any ICBN gurus somewhere 'round ?

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