Emphasis on Holotype (?)
Abstract
The description of new species should not be confined to physical description of a holotype. One specimen cannot include all characters or be typical of any taxon. The holotype serves only a nomenclatural function and might also be termed the name-bearer (nomenifer) to avoid confusion of "type specimen" with "typical specimen."
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- April 1960
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.131.3406.1043
- Bibcode:
- 1960Sci...131R1043S