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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 used for the original published description of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated.
- noun One of two or more biological specimens or other elements simultaneously designated as type specimens in the original published description of a species or subspecies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the nomenclature of types in natural history, any specimen of the original series (from which a species has been described and named) when there is no holotype: same as
cotype .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology Any of several
specimens selected astypes for thename of aspecies
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