Aleppicum

Aleppicum is a Latin adjectival species epithet used in the scientific naming of organisms. It denotes an association with Aleppo, the historic city in Syria, and is commonly translated as "of Aleppo." The epithet appears across various taxa in botany and zoology as part of the binomial name.

In botanical Latin, aleppicum is a neuter form of the adjective; it should agree in gender with the genus in which it is placed (e.g., a neuter genus would take aleppicum). In zoological nomenclature, place-based epithets can take masculine, feminine, or neuter endings depending on the gender of the genus; aleppicum corresponds to the neuter form. The use of aleppicum generally indicates that the type specimen was collected near Aleppo or that the species was described from that region, though it does not guarantee current geographic distribution.

Because many different species across unrelated genera might share the epithet aleppicum, it alone does not identify a single taxon. To locate information about a species with this epithet, the full binomial name (genus aleppicum) and accompanying taxonomic literature should be consulted, along with the specimen's type locality and description.

See also: aleppensis. Aleppicum is one of several place-based epithets derived from Aleppo; for broader context, see Latin grammatical agreement in taxonomic nomenclature.