Paratype
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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
Syntype
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In biological nomenclature, a syntype is any one of two or more biological specimens, or types, used to scientifically describe a taxon, where no single type has been given primacy. It is different fr
Paratype
…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. The exact meaning of the term paratype when it is…
Close-up profile view of a Nylanderia pygmaea syntype male preserved in Baltic amber at the Natural History Museum, Vienna