[Taxacom] "sp. nr." in name

[Robert Louis Zuparko]

To my way of thinking, the difference between "Geolaelips sp. nr.
aculeifera" and "Geolaelips nr. aculeifera" is insignificant. Both refer to
the same idea. In neither case is this a binomial, so I'm not sure what
your colleague was referring to.

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu> wrote:

> On 10/17/17 1:44 PM, Norbert Holstein wrote:
>
>>  "cf." -> confis = "compare with".
>>
> Not exactly.
>
> Abbreviation of/cōnfer <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/confer#Latin>/,
> imperative of/cōnferō <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/confero#Latin>/,
> from/con- <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/con-#Latin>/(“together”)and/ferō
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fero#Latin>/(“(I) bring”).
>
> see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf. for application in biology,
> and also citing Bengtson.
>
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