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- Chapter 2: The number of words in the scientific names     of animals
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- Chapter 5: Date of publication
- Chapter 6: Validity of names and nomenclatural acts
- Chapter 7: Formation and treatment of names
- Chapter 8: Family-group nominal taxa and their names
- Chapter 9: Genus-group nominal taxa and their names
- Chapter 10: Species-group nominotypical taxa and their     names
- Chapter 11: Authorship
- Chapter 12: Homonymy
- Chapter 13: The type concept in nomenclature
- Chapter 14: Types in the family group
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- Chapter 16: Types in the species group
- Chapter 17: The International Commission on Zoological   Nomenclature
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