Holotype
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A holotype is a single physical example of an organism that is the one that was used when the species was formally described. It may be the only such physical example, or it may have been explicitly d
Holotype with red type label affixed
Holotype of Marocaster coronatus, MHNT
Modern holotype label for Encarsia accenta
Type locality (biology)
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A type locality is the place where the name-bearing type specimen – the particular specimen that formally anchors the scientific name – of a species or subspecies was collected, captured, or first obs
Holotype herbarium sheet of Guioa sufusana (L 0013573), with label data recording the collection locality
Karkloof Forest in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa, an area proposed as the likely collecting region for some of Nylander's 'Port-Natal' lichen material