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
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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