Zoological Nomenclature of Ice and Fire Evangelos Vlachos CONICET & Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Chubut, Argentina. Email:
[email protected] Valar gūrēñis — All men must learn probably sounded differently in the Common Tongue. The diversity of the World of Ice and Fire Back to our world, following the pioneering (Westeros, Essos and the other continents work of C. Linnaeus in 1758 the need of a stable combined) is remarkable. All kinds of species of and universal system of biological animals and plants are known, including some nomenclature became necessary. Since then, a mythical creatures. The purpose of this set of rules has been created, revised, used and contribution is to provide a system of applied to Zoological Nomenclature, forming nomenclature for the most important animal the so-called International Code of Zoological species from the World of Ice and Fire. This Nomenclature (ICZN, or simply ‘the Code’). The new system is based on the High Valyrian latest edition was published in 1999, and some language, and aims to provide a set of names parts of the Code have been recently (2012) that can be applied to the various species of life amended to include names and acts published that survived, or even became extinct, in this in electronic-only journals. world. I will briefly present the main features of The World of Ice and Fire is a fictional this system of nomenclature for those not world. Although most of the wild and entirely familiar with it. The backbone concept domesticated animals are the same or similar of nomenclature is the binomen: each species to our own, there several animals that are name is formed by two components, the genus unique to it.