[Taxacom] "sp. nr." in name

[Gurcharan Singh]

I thought this explains all

“n. sp.” indicates that this is a new, undescribed species and not simply
an unidentified species. “sp. nr.” indicates “species near”. In the example
above, this indicates that this is similar to Camponotus gasseri. “aff.”,
affinis, related to but not identical to the species given. “cf.”, confer;
literally, “compare with” conveys resemblance to a given species but is not
necessarily related to it. “s.l.”, sensu lato; literally, “in the broad
sense”. “ex”, “from” or “out of” the biological host of the specimen.
Note that names with cf., aff., nr., and n. sp. are not unique and should
have unique identifiers appended to the name.

A quote from:
https://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/book/tag-library/2.1/FullBookSample/ch4d1.pdf

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Robert Louis Zuparko <rz at berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> 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:
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> > 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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