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synonymous

Having the same or similar meaning, significance or implication; being a synonym of something.

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Acanthocobitis pavonacea
Botia almorhae
Epiplatys sexfasciatus
Hemibagrus macropterus
Nannostomus beckfordi
Pangio semicincta

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objective synonym
Each of two or more synonyms referring to nominal taxa with the same name-bearing type, or, in the cases of family-group and genus-group taxa, referring to nominal taxa with name-bearing types whose own names are themselves objectively synonymous.
synonym
In zoological nomenclature, any of two or more names of the same taxonomic rank used to denote the same taxon. Names referred to as synonyms are not usually valid in the current sense.
synonymy
The quality or state of being synonymous; a list or record of all synonyms that have been applied to a species or group

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