type specimen

NOUN
  1. the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made
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  • Among these are the best specimen of the dome-skulled chalicothere Tylocephalonyx skinneri, and type specimens of several other mammals, including rodents, oreodonts and carnivores.
  • Over 800+ cataloged specimens from seven species of dinosaur, including the type specimen of the first Jurassic ankylosaur Mymoorapelta, have been recovered from this bonebed. Cooperative Management of Paleontological Resources on Federal Lands in Mesa County, Colorado
  • The type specimen is deposited in the writer's herbarium, and a cotype may be found in the Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
  • The type specimen is deposited in the writer's herbarium, and a cotype may be seen in the State Herbarium. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
  • The type specimen is deposited in the writer's herbarium, and a cotype may be found in the State Herbarium. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
  • Timm et al. (2005) argued that the lack of a type specimen means that Lophocebus kipunji ‘is not an available name and has no formal standing in zoology’ (p. 2163) and Landry (2005) argued that the authors should have published ‘all of the excellent descriptive material and their quite convincing case for calling it new, without, however, naming it’ (p. 2164). Archive 2006-06-01
  • Brice's study was a major improvement over that of Wallace in that she restudied topotype specimens of the type species, although her serial-sections did not reveal certain key internal structures of the dorsal valve.
  • The tamaraw, the very rare dwarf buffalo of Mindoro that is the Philippines' national animal; Heude described that, and we found the type specimen.
  • Then, as now, type specimens constituted the fundamental entity upon which species are described according to the rules of zoological nomenclature.
  • Both institutions have a very long tradition of research on staphylinids and house important historical collections of rove beetles with a considerable number of historical type specimens.
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