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This is a list of organisms with the shortest scientific names. This list does not consider common names. It includes organisms with specific epithets that are one or two letters longs, as well as some genera with only two letters.

Naming restrictions[edit]

The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature mandates genus, subgenus,[1]: art. 11.8  species, and subspecies names be at least two letters each.[1]: art. 11.9  Thus the shortest binomial is 4 letters (and a space). Names for superfamilies, families, subfamilies, tribes, and subtribes all include suffices of at least three letters, and are based on the generic names.[1]: art. 29.2 

The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants does not have a specified minimum length for genus, species, or infrasepecific names.[2] Taxa names of families and higher ranks typically have suffices of at least four letters.[2]: art. 16.3, 18.1 

The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes also does not specify a minimum name length.[3] The suffices for ranks from order to subtribe are three or more letters[3]: app.7 (1) 

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses states that taxa of genus rank or higher must include certain suffices of four or more letters depending on rank.[4] Species names typically are more than one word, but this is not a requirement.[4] In the 2018b taxonomy release, The shortest virus species names are eight letters (and a space) each, Una virus and Orf virus. The longest virus species names are 58 characters each, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum debilitation-associated RNA virus and Choristoneura fumiferana DEF multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus.[5]

Species with one-letter specific epithets[edit]

Species-level epithets with two letters[edit]

Species names can be abbreviated to the first letter of the genus, a period, a space, and the full epithet. For example, Stenolicmus ix can be abbreviated as S. ix.


Key to etymology:
♣ = derived from a common name
♦ = from another language
♥ = wordplay and/or humorous derivation
¿ = unknown derivation

Genus-level names with two-letters[edit]

These genera and subgenera are two letters long. No genus is only a single letter long.

Key to etymology:
♣ = derived from a common name
♦ = from another language
♥ = wordplay and/or humorous derivation
¿ = unknown derivation

Species with four-letter binomials[edit]

No species has a two- or three-letter binomial. A single letter binomial name is not allowed.

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999). "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition". London, UK: The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b McNeill, J.; et al., eds. (2012). International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code), Adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July 2011 (electronic ed.). Bratislava: International Association for Plant Taxonomy. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b Parker, Charles T; Tindall, Brian J; Garrity, George M. (20 November 2015). "International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes" (PDF). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 69 (1A): S1–S111. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000778. ISSN 1466-5026. OCLC 6924530608. PMID 26596770. S2CID 41561549. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Virus Taxonomy: The Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses The Online (10th) Report of the ICTV". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). July 2017. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Virus Taxonomy: 2018b Release" (html). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). March 2019. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d e Girault, Alexandre Arsène (30 September 1929). "New Pests from Australia" (PDF). 1 (6). Brisbane: 1–4. OCLC 419331037. Retrieved 15 March 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ Baillon, Henri Ernest (7 May 1890). "Sur les Baobabs de Madagascar" (PDF). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris (in Franch). 2 (406): 844–846. OCLC 5069130. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2018. Nous nommerons cette espèce Adansonia za.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  8. ^ Bradt, Hilary (March 2011). "3 Natural History". Madagascar. Bradt Travel Guides (10 ed.). Bradt Travel Guides. p. 44. ISBN 9781841623412. OCLC 861680238. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  9. ^ Wickens, Gerald E.; Lowe, Pat (2 March 2008). "1 Historical Background". The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 24. ISBN 9781402064319. OCLC 239278146. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  10. ^ Menke, Arnold S. (1977). "Aha, a new genus of Australian Sphecidae, and revised key to the world genera of the tribe Miscophini (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Larrinae)". Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne. 47: 671–681. ISSN 0032-3780. OCLC 457011738.
  11. ^ Linnaeus, Carl; Salvius, Lars (1758). Caroli Linnaei...Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (pdf) (in Latin). Vol. v.1. Holmiae : Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. p. 472. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.542. hdl:2027/hvd.32044106464480. OCLC 499504699. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  12. ^ Erwin, Terry L. (4 November 2010). "Agra, arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests: pusilla group and piranha group systematics and notes on their ways of life (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)". ZooKeys (66): 1–28. doi:10.3897/zookeys.66.684. ISSN 1313-2989. OCLC 7180479534. PMC 3088417. PMID 21594029. The epithet "ce" is a combination of pronounceable letters that when joined with the last three letters of the genus name, Agra, spells "grace," for the Peruvian Ornithologist, Grace Servat, who has shared the lowland Amazon and the high Andes with me for many years, including the known localities of this species.
  13. ^ a b c Girault, Alexandre Arsène (10 February 1930). "New Pests from Australia" (PDF). 1 (7). Brisbane: 1–3. OCLC 419331037. Retrieved 15 March 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ^ Selys-Longchamps, E. (1862). "Synopsis des Agrionines, seconde légion: Lestes". Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Academie Royale de Belgique. 2 (in French). 13: 288–338 [330]. Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  15. ^ Fabricius, Johan Christian (1775). Systema entomologiae : sistens insectorvm classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibvs, observationibvs (PDF) (in Latin). Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae :In Officina Libraria Kortii. p. 560. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.36510. OCLC 559265566. Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  16. ^ Thomas, Oldfield (1904). "XXIX.—New forms of Saimiri, Saccopteryx, Balantiopteryx, and Thrichomys from the Neotropical region". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7. 13 (76): 250–255. doi:10.1080/00222930409487064. ISSN 0374-5481. OCLC 4806270958. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
  17. ^ Beolens, Bo; Grayson, Michael; Watkins, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 205. doi:10.1353/book.3355. ISBN 9780801895333. OCLC 8160843969. S2CID 262619044.
  18. ^ a b c d e Evenhuis, Neal L. (5 February 2009). "Review of Campsicnemus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) of the Marquesas, French Polynesia, with description of four new species groups" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2004: 25–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2004.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. OCLC 423814380. S2CID 18364174. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2018. Common name: The "Marquesan vowel flies" are so named because of the fact that all five species are named after double vowel words in the Marquesan language.
  19. ^ Beccari, Odoardo (1871). "Note Sopra Alcune Palme Bornensi" (PDF). Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano (in Italian). 3: 12–15. Archived from the original on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  20. ^ Trail, James William Helenus (April 1889). Trail, James William Helenus (ed.). "The Fungi of Inveraray: II Micromycetes". The Scottish Naturalist. New Series. 4 (24): 75. OCLC 81708620. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  21. ^ Harvey, Donald J.; Hall, Jason P. W. (27 June 2002). "Phylogenetic revision of the Charis cleonus complex (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)". Systematic Entomology. 27 (3): 265–300. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.2002.00173.x. ISSN 0307-6970. OCLC 437478927. S2CID 83842298. The specific name ma is used to create a eupho- nious play on words when combined with the generic name Charis.
  22. ^ Sivec, Ignac; Stark, Bill P. (13. April 2010). "Five new species of Chinoperla Zwick (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Vietnam and Thailand" (PDF). Illiesia. 6 (8): 62–74. ISSN 1854-0392. OCLC 781076583. Retrieved 2 February 2019. The species name, used as a noun in apposition, honors the Yi people of the China-Vietnam border region near the type locality. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  23. ^ Myers, John Golding (February 1928). "A Note on Australian Typhlocybine Leafhoppers, with a Description of a new Species". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 18 (3): 311–312. doi:10.1017/S0007485300020046. ISSN 0007-4853. OCLC 4669491304.
  24. ^ a b c d Thomas, Oldfield (1902). "XXIV.—On two new mammals from China". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7. 10 (56): 163–166. doi:10.1080/00222930208678653. ISSN 0374-5481. OCLC 4806273880. Archived from the original on 13 February 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  25. ^ Sæther, Ole A. (1984). "Limnophyes er sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Finland, with new Nearctic records of previously described species". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 15 (4): 540–544. doi:10.1163/187631284X00398. ISSN 1876-312X. OCLC 4637500240.
  26. ^ Menke, Arnold S. (1988). "Pison in the New World: a revision (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Trypoxylini)". Contributions of the American Entomological Institute. 24 (3): 47–48. ASIN B000721IBQ. ISSN 0569-4450. OCLC 715120981. The name eu, treated as a noun in apposition, is based on the Greek prefix meaning true or good, a reference to the fact that the species is valid.
  27. ^ de Nicéville, Lionel (24 May 1902). Phipson, H. M.; Millard, W. S. (eds.). "On new and little-known Butterflies, mostly from the Oriental region" (PDF). The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 14 (2): 247–248. ISSN 0006-6982. OCLC 863086885. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  28. ^ Wosiacki, Wolmar Benjamin; Coutinho, Daniel Pires; Montag, Luciano (31 January 2011). "Description of a new species of sand-dwelling catfish of the genus Stenolicmus (Siluriformes; Trichomycteridae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2752: 62–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2752.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. OCLC 863059376. Retrieved 19 March 2018. Etymology. The specific epithet, ix, refers to the Mayan word "Ix", term used to describe the jaguar (Panthera onca). The name refers to the color pattern of grouped patches scattered from the flanks to the dorsum, unique among its congeners and similar to the jaguar. Name in apposition. Gender masculine.
  29. ^ a b c d Xu, Xing; Zheng, Xiaoting; Sullivan, Corwin; Wang, Xiaoli; Xing, Lida; Wang, Yan; Zhang, Xiaomei; O’Connor, Jingmai K.; Zhang, Fucheng; Pan, Yanhong (7 May 2015). "A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings". Nature. 521 (7550): 70–73. Bibcode:2015Natur.521...70X. doi:10.1038/nature14423. ISSN 0028-0836. OCLC 5840885530. PMID 25924069. S2CID 205243599. Etymology. The generic and specific names are derived from Mandarin Yi (wing) and qi (strange), respectively, referring to the bizarre wings of this animal. The intended pronunciation of the name is roughly ee chee
  30. ^ Cleve, P.T. (1895). Synopsis of the Naviculoid Diatoms, Part II. Kongliga Svenska-Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar. 27(3): 1–219, 4 pls. page(s): p. 42; pl. 1, fig. 17
  31. ^ a b c d e f Baker, Horace Burrington (20 January 1940). "Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 2 Hawaiian Genera of Microcystinae" (PDF). Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin (165): 105–201. ISSN 0005-9439. OCLC 256562754. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  32. ^ Dybowski 1926 Bulletin international de l'Académie des sciences de Cracovie, (B) 1926:61.
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  35. ^ Brunetti, Enrico Adelelmo (1923). "Second revision of the Oriental Stratiomyidae". Records of the Indian Museum. (Calcutta). 25: 45–180.

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