English

Noun

chresonymy ‎(plural chresonymies)

1. A set of various taxons that have been published for a particular species.
   • 1975, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History):

     The unique combination of head characters and bipendulate aedeagus has resulted in considerable chresonymy and greatly broadened the geographical range of the group.

   • 1993, Malacological Society of Australia, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia - Volume 14, page 43:

     I have subdivided the listing of denominations into synonymy sensu stricto and chresonymy (i.e. the subsequent usage of the synonyms) and in each of these two subdivisions I separate the correct and the incorrect usages.

   • 2009, Perry's Arcana, ISBN 1439901961:

     He was not the first to use that spelling and his chresonymy shows both spellings have been used almost equally.

2. A list of all published uses of a taxon name (usually a species name).
   • 1977, James Emory Eckenwalder, Systematics of Populus L. (Salicaceae) in Southwestern North America with Special Reference to Sect. Aigeiros Duby:

     The paleobotanical literature concerned with the western North American Tertiary record would benefit from the use of the bibliographic device of chresonymy.

   • 1988, Kairuigaku Zasshi: - Volumes 47-48, page 176:

     An extensive chresonymy of the name rectirostris can be found in Palmer (1958: 215).

   • 1994, Aaron M. Bauer, Familia Gekkonidae (Reptilia, Sauria). Part I: Australia and Oceania, ISBN 3110885956:

     Page numbers in the chresonymy citations refer to the first or, in some cases, the primary use of the name in the work in question (always the first use in the case of new names).

Derived terms

• heterochresonymy
• orthochresonymy