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- noun Plural form of
holotype .
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The embassy said holotypes must be kept in museums or reputed institutions where they will be made available to scientists worldwide.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Polaszek et al. (2005) responded to these criticisms by arguing that the ICZN does actually allow the recognition of taxa without holotypes (Article 73.1.4), and they argued that conservation concerns should encourage zoologists to catalogue species on the basis of vocalisations, molecular information and so on, and that ‘dead animal specimens should not be understood to be essential to the process of establishing new taxa’ (p. 2165).
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Let me give you an example: In 1988 I was working in the Mineralogical Museum in Delft, which also holds holotypes of indonesian triassic foraminafera.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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The collection includes several holotypes and isotypes - specimens used to define a species.
YubaNet.com 2010
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