BioConcepts

code (of nomenclature)Code (der Nomenklatur) (ger.)

• A system or collection of rules or regulations on any subject. (OED 2011)
  category taxonomy

  1881

  le code Strickland

  Douvillé, H. (1881). Règles proposées par le comité de la nomenclature paléontologique. Compt. Rend. Congr. Géol. Internat. 2. Sess., 594-595: 594.

  1982

  code The system of rules and recommendations regulating nomenclature, published in the most recent edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the Bacteriological Code. 

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 50.

  1999

  Code of Zoological Nomenclature

  Ride, W.D.L. et al. (1999). International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; cf. Linsley, E.G. & Usinger, R.L. (1959). Linnaeus and the development of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Syst. Zool. 8, 39-47; Heppel, D. (1981). The evolution of the code of zoological nomenclature. In: Wheeler, A. & Price, J. (eds.). History in the Service of Systematics, 135-141.

  2000

  Code of Botanical Nomenclature

  Greuter, W. (2000). International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.