What is "species name"

n. (context biology taxonomy English) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: the generic name (or generic epithet, the genus of the species) and the specific name (a term used only in zoology, never in botany, for the second part of a binomial) or the specific epithet (the term always used in botany, which can also be used in zoology).

Species name is a technical term in biological taxonomy. Unlike the closely related term " specific name", it has the same meaning in the different nomenclature codes, and refers to the two-part name that is used for a species in binomial nomenclature.

For example, Silene latifolia is the species name for a plant that is commonly called "white campion", and Bos primigenius is the species name for a type of cattle commonly called "zebu". In these two examples, latifolia is the botanical " specific epithet" or "species epithet", and primigenius is the zoological " specific name".