Editing PhyloCode (section)

==Registration database==

Once implemented, the ''PhyloCode'' will be associated with a registration [[database]], called [[RegNum]], which will store all clade names and definitions that will be considered acceptable.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://phylonames.org/code/articles/8 | title=The PhyloCode: Article 8}}</ref> It is hoped that this will provide a publicly usable tool for associating clade names with definitions, which could then be associated with sets of [[taxon|subtaxa]] or specimens through [[phylogeny|phylogenetic]] tree databases (such as [[TreeBASE]]).

As currently planned, however, the most important use of RegNum will be the decision of which one of a number of synonyms or homonyms will be considered accepted: the one with the lowest registration number, except in cases of conservation.