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In zoology and botany, a paratype is a specimen of an organism that helps define what the scientific name of a species and other taxon actually represents, but it is not the holotype. Often there is m
Paratype of Cadurcotherium nouleti – MHNT
Paratype of Cadurcotherium nouleti – MHNT
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
Paratype
…a paratype is a specimen of an organism that helps define what the scientific name of a species and other taxon actually represents, but it is not the holotype (and in botany is also neither an isotype nor a syntype). Often there is more than one paratype. Paratypes are usually held in museum research collections…
Holotype with red type label affixed
Holotype with red type label affixed
Holotype of Marocaster coronatus, MHNT
Holotype of Marocaster coronatus, MHNT
Modern holotype label for Encarsia accenta [species]
Modern holotype label for Encarsia accenta [species]