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 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