Biology · Plant Taxonomy
According to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), a paratype is defined as:
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- 1A particular specimen designated by the author of the species to represent the primary type of a species.
- 2A specimen or illustration selected to serve as a nomenclatural type as long as all the material on which the name of the taxon was based is missing.
- 3The name given to a specimen collected from the same locality from which the holotype was originally collected.
- 4A specimen cited in the protologue that is neither the holotype nor an isotype, nor one of the syntypes.✓
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A specimen cited in the protologue that is neither the holotype nor an isotype, nor one of the syntypes.
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