Type species
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A type species is the species considered to be permanently taxonomically associated with the name of a genus or subgenus, and that is used to identify it and distinguish it from others. In modern time
Columba oenas, the stock dove, is the type species of the genus Columba.
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