Stiletto the sharp point to inflict severe internal damage not readily apparent when examining the entrance wound. The stiletto followed the first wave of Italian diaspora to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana during the mid-19th century, where the knife became a popular weapon of gamblers, gang members, and assorted assassins. The stiletto was involved in so many stabbings and murders in New Orleans that the city passed an ordinance in 1879 outlawing the sale or exhibition for sale of any stiletto within the city limits. Italian immigrants to America frequently purchased or made such knives for self-defense, and the stiletto
Name-bearing type In contrast, a subjective synonym is based on a different name-bearing type, but is regarded as representing the same taxon; for example, the name "Viverra touan" Shaw, 1800, is based on a different name-bearing type (a specimen in the Field Museum of Natural History), but is currently regarded as representing the same species as "Didelphis brevicaudata" and "Didelphys brachyuros". "Family-group" ranks include the superfamily and all other ranks below it and above the genus, including the family and tribe. The name of a family-group taxon is based on the stem of the type genus, its name-bearing type; for example, the