Type (biology)
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In biology, a type is a particular specimen of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centraliz
Type specimen for Marocaster coronatus
A gossamer-winged butterfly, Jamides elioti: 1) dorsal and 2) ventral aspect of holotype, 3) dorsal and 4) ventral aspect of paratype
Type illustration of Mormopterus acetabulosus
The common toad, Bufo bufo described by Linnaeus, is the type species for the genus Bufo
Edward Drinker Cope
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Edward Drinker Cope was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, he distinguished himself as a child prodigy int
Type (biology)
…studied was probably himself. This sufficiently and correctly designated Linnaeus to be the lectotype for Homo sapiens. It has also been suggested that Edward Cope is the lectotype for Homo sapiens, based on the 1994 reporting by Louie Psihoyos of an unpublished proposal by Bob Bakker to do so. However, this…
Portrait of Cope, c. 1895
Cope's Pine Street residence
Illustration plate to Cope's 1870 description of several reptiles, including an improperly reconstructed Elasmosaurus (foreground)
Illustration plate from Cope's The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the Far West, featuring the skulls of Canidae from the "John Day Epoch" in Oregon