Hellerii

Hellerii is a Latinized specific epithet used in the scientific names of a number of organisms across different groups of life. It is derived from the surname Heller and is used to honor one or more individuals with that name who contributed to the discovery or study of the taxon. Because the epithet is applied to many genera, hellerii does not denote a single taxon but rather a pattern of naming used in both botany and zoology.

In nomenclature, the ending -ii typically indicates homage to a male honoree. When the epithet is formed to honor a female, the form helleriae is used instead. The epithet hellerii is thus an honorific rather than a descriptive or geographic term, and it does not imply any taxonomic relationship among the species that bear it.

Use and rules: The epithet follows the rules of the relevant codes of nomenclature—the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) for plants and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) for animals. The same epithet may appear in many different genera across plants and animals.

Notes: If you are looking for information about a specific taxon that includes hellerii, you would need both the genus name and the epithet; searching hellerii alone is ambiguous because multiple species across different genera bear the epithet.

Heller is a surname with several naturalists and contributors after whom taxa have been named.