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> From:         Marlo Krisberg[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         maandag 5 juli 1999 4:28
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Question on types
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> Cotype is a fellow worker.
>
> A topotype is someone higher up in the pecking order than you (usually a
> senior staff member who has
> the power to withhold tenure from lowly cotypes).
>
> Bye
>
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> Marlo
> Merritt Island, Florida
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>
> Emilio Jorge Power wrote:
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> > Hello!
> >
> > What is a cotype? Is it a topotype?
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> > --
> >
> > Later,
> >
> > Emilio Jorge Power
> >
> > Please visit;
> > "The Liguus Home Page"
> > http://pw1.netcom.com/~ejpower/lighompage.html
> > West Melbourne, Florida  USA
>
        In my opinion a topotype is a specimen found at the typelocality of
the holotype that is not included in the paratypes. So you can still find
topotypes of a species as the lypelocality is known.
        Martin Cadee, the Netherlands

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