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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of two or more biological specimens or other elements from which a holotype was designated in the original published description of a species or subspecies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, a specimen of the original series from which a single specimen, or holotype, has been selected as the type of a species.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A
specimen of anorganism that is used as the basis of ataxonomic description
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Examples
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Under ‘holotype’ they wrote ‘Adult male in photograph (Fig. 2)’, with a ‘paratype’ being described as ‘Adult in photograph (Fig. 3)’ (p. 1162).
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The holotype of Idyla aydinensis and a paratype with the palatal wall of aperture removed.
A new land snail species from Turkey: Idyla aydinensis AYDIN 2007
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The holotype of Idyla aydinensis and a paratype with the palatal wall of aperture removed.
Archive 2007-07-01 AYDIN 2007
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The stream from which the single paratype was obtained had brown water and was of low pH
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Mostly relative dating based on matching cranium and the paratype maxilla plus 34 specimens - mammalian fossils found in the caves with fossils from three mandible fragments, a maxilla fragment and isolated absolutely dated sites in East Africa.
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Precloacal vertebra (paratype specimen UF / IGM 2) in anterior view (
Planet Atheism 2009
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