Stiletto through the end of the 19th century, particularly in France, Corsica, and Italy. While still used as a weapon of surprise and assassination, the use of stiletto in preference to the dagger in close combat confrontations between adversaries became widespread throughout Italy, Sardinia, and Corsica. The continued popularity of the stiletto in the Kingdom of Sicily resulted in the development of the "scherma di stiletto siciliano" (Sicilian school of stiletto fighting). A person skilled in the use of a stiletto would thrust the knife deep into the victim, then twist the blade sharply in various directions before retracting it, causing
Name-bearing type illustration or description itself), even if no longer in existence. Name-bearing type Under the "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature" ("Code"), the name-bearing type is the biological type that determines the application of a name. Each animal taxon regulated by the "Code" at least potentially has a name-bearing type. The name-bearing type can be either a type genus (family group), type species (genus group), or one or more type specimens (species group). For example, the name "Mabuya maculata" (Gray, 1839) has often been used for the Noronha skink (currently "Trachylepis atlantica"), but because the name-bearing type of the former, a lizard