Examples of 'lectotype' in a sentence

Meaning of "lectotype"

lectotype is a specimen selected to serve as the single type specimen when the original type specimen was inadequate
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  • A biological specimen or illustration later selected to serve as definitive type example of a species or subspecies when the original author of the name did not designate a holotype.

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It has been selected here as the lectotype.
No holotype or lectotype has been selected.
This species is known to science only from the lectotype.
Image of lectotype specimen.
Designation of a lectotype.
The lectotype is a cranium from an unrecorded locality of Upper Valdarno.
The latter is named the syntype and lectotype material is designated.
The lectotype for this species is a long male from the Red Sea.
However his illustration does not agree with the lectotype and paratype specimens of the species.
A lectotype is designated for Megalomus darwini Banks.
A notable example is that Carl Linnaeus is the lectotype for the species Homo sapiens.
A lectotype is chosen for Asterina melastomatacearum Ryan.
Neither the antennae or the fore-wings are preserved on the single examined lectotype.
A lectotype is designated for Glomus macrocarpum Tui.
Metasphaeria rupicola is transferred to Massarina, and a lectotype is designated.

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The lectotype is located in Rio de Janeiro.
Normally, such an action would have to be regarded as a lectotype designation for A. rivulata.
The lectotype of the genus is Halopeplis nodulosa, which is a synonym of Halopeplis amplexicaulis.
Syntype, Each specimen of a type series from which neither a holotype nor a lectotype has been designated.
List of Poaceae genera lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop.
Discosia baarnensis is shown to have an earlier name, D. poikilomera, which is redescribed from a lectotype.
In zoology, a lectotype is a type of name-bearing type.
Le Loeuff made Iuticosaurus valdensis the type species, and chose BMNH 151 as the lectotype.
The lectotype femur was thought by Michel Brunet in 1970 to be typical of a pelican.
The type specimen of Homarus gammarus was a lectotype selected by Lipke Holthuis in 1974.
A lectotype for this species was designated by Marinus Boeseman in 1947.
In 1875, John Smith designated Antrophyum plantagineum as the lectotype for the genus.
The lectotype was depicted by Georg Eberhard Rumphius in 1705, the type locality being Ambon, Indonesia.

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