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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 an organism that is used as the basis of a taxonomic description

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • The holotype of Idyla aydinensis and a paratype with the palatal wall of aperture removed.

    Archive 2007-07-01 AYDIN 2007

  • The stream from which the single paratype was obtained had brown water and was of low pH

    Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS) 2009

  • 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.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Precloacal vertebra (paratype specimen UF / IGM 2) in anterior view (

    Planet Atheism 2009

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