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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RaMa" data-source="post: 1796309" data-attributes="member: 74817">Well, not really. A nomen nudum (a "naked" name without description) is unavailable right from the beginning. Unavailable names are neither valid nor invalid, they virtually don't exist in zoological nomenclature.Yes.See above.Here's the crux! It is neither valid nor a synonym because it is unidentifiable. But still available! Technically. Unlike a nomen nudum which is unavailable.It's not listed in a reference list of all opinions and declarations contained in the "Official lists and indexes of names and works in zoology" (1987), which suggests that it was incorporated in a later opinion and/or in the main text of the Code. I don't know where it was published.The Code is an extremely complex document and difficult to understand, maybe even for those who have written it. Sometimes I just need to be reminded, that one easily underestimates the difficulties many people have with such a technical and semi-legalistic text. Rainer</blockquote>