If my boss has put on a lot of weight, can I refer to her as a Hippotype?
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---- Paul Monfils <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A couple of my grandkids are hypertypes, but none of them are hypotypes.
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>   From: Richard Petit
>   To: [log in to unmask]
>   Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 6:02 PM
>   Subject: Re: Hypotype
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>   Wes:
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>   A hypotype is a specimen that has been either figured or described.  I agree with Blackwelder, 1967, who stated that all terms containing "type" should be used with great care and then sparingly!  I once received a harsh note from an editor (also Director of the institution involved) who took me to task for not identifying some of his institution's figured specimens as hypotypes in my paper.  I gently pointed out to him that if he had read the manuscript carefully he would have found that those "hypotypes" were part of the type series of a new species!
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>   While at it, topotypes are specimens from the same locality as the type;  a plastotype is the cast of a type; a metatype or homoeotype is a specimen compared with the type and believed to agree with its features.  Having said this, I suggest that all of these -type terms be forgotten!
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>   Regards,
>
>   dick
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>     From: Wesley M. Thorsson
>     To: [log in to unmask]
>     Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 5:47 AM
>     Subject: Hypotype
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>     The other day I photographed the seven type specimens of Columbellidae in Bishop Museum.   There were several that were called hypotypes on the labels.
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>     What is a hypotype?  I can not find a definition of it?

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