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( Trinomen)
In zoology, a trinomen, or trinominal name, refers to the name of a subspecies. A trinomen is a name consisting of three names generic name, specific name and subspecific name. All three names are typeset in italics, and only the generic name is capitalised. No indicator of rank is included in zoology, subspecies is the only rank below that of species. If the generic and specific name have already been mentioned in the same paragraph, they are often abbreviated to initial letters for example one might write, "The Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo has a distinct subspecies in Australasia, the Black Shag P. c. novaehollandiae". In a taxonomic publication, a name is incomplete without an author citation and publication details. This indicates who published the name; in what publication; with the date of the publication.
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