Abbreviations
ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations for names of authors follow Kirk & Ansell (1992). Abbreviations of journal titles and books are not listed here and, with a few exceptions, journals follow the World List of Scientific Periodicals 4th ed., 1963, and books follow Taxonomic Literature [TL-2] 2nd ed. and 6 supplements (1976–2000).
| A: | Auckland Is |
| agg. | aggregate |
| Ant: | Antipodes I. |
| App. | appendix |
| auct. | auctorum, of authors |
| B: | Bounty I. |
| C | calcium hypochlorite |
| C: | Campbell I. |
| c. | circa, about, approximately |
| cf. | confer, compare |
| Ch: | Chatham Is |
| diam. | diameter |
| E | East or Eastern |
| Ed. | Editor; plural Eds |
| ed. | edition |
| e.g. | exempli gratia, for example |
| emend. | emendavit, emended |
| et al. | et alii, and others |
| fig. | figure |
| fl. | floruit, (of a person) he/she flourished, he/she lived at this |
| herb. | herbarium |
| HPLC | high performance liquid chromatography |
| I | iodine |
| I. | Island; plural Is; |
| ibid. | ibidem, in the same place |
| i.e. | id est, that is |
| ITS | internally transcribed spacer region of the DNA encoding rRNA (rDNA) |
| K | potassium hydroxide |
| Lat. | latitude south |
| LCR | Landcare Research New Zealand |
| leg. | legit, collected |
| l.c. | loco citato, in the place cited |
| M: | Macquarie I. |
| Mt/Mts | Mount, Mountain/(s) |
| N | North or Northern |
| N: | North I. |
| n.s. | new series |
| NZ | New Zealand |
| nom. cons. | nomen conservandum, conserved name |
| nom. nud. | nomen nudum, bare name, i.e. without description |
| op. cit. | opere citato, in the work cited |
| p. | page; plural pp. |
| Pd | paraphenylendiamine |
| pr. p. | pro parte, in part |
| pr. max. p. | pro maxima parte, for the greater part |
| pr. min. p. | pro minima parte, for the smaller part |
| pers. comm. | personal comment |
| pl. | plate |
| q.v. | quod vide, which see |
| Ra. | Range, plural Ras |
| S | South or Southern |
| S: | South I. |
| s. lat. | sensu lato, in a broad sense |
| s. str. | sensu stricto, in a narrow sense |
| ser. | series |
| sic | written exactly as in original |
| s.l. | sea level |
| Sn: | Snares I. |
| sp. | species; plural spp. |
| ssp. | subspecies; plural sspp. |
| St: | Stewart I. |
| tab. | tabula, plate |
| TLC | thin-layer chromatography |
| tr. | trace |
| var. | varietas, variety; plural, vars |
| viz. | videlicet, namely, that is to say |
