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Holotype

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used to formally describe the species (or lower-order taxon), subsequently to be kept as a reference.

    "The holotype of this species is subglobular in shape and ammoniticonic in its mode of growth."

  2. 2
    the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made wordnet

Etymology

From holo- + -type.

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