nomen dubium

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Translingual

Etymology

From Latin nomen (“name”) + dubium (“dubious”)

Noun

nomen dubium (plural nomina dubia)

  1. (taxonomy) In zoological nomenclature, a name which describes a fossil with no unique diagnostic features, and which therefore can not accurately be assigned a classification.
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