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> I imagine a plastotype would be a cast of a holotype. Nu?
[A mold taken from a primary type]
> A cotype is a shell where no Hollotype has been designated.
[A type series, several specimens where none have been selected as the
holotype, also known as syntypes]
> How 'bout a "hypotype"?
[a figured or illustrated specimen of a taxon already described in the
literature]
> We have "Plasto-cotypes"---which you can figure out.
> What's a --lectoparatype?
[ What you call the specimens from a group of syntypes when one has been
selected out to be the lectotype, also called paralectotype]
> What's a plesiotype?
[ A specimen, designated by a future or subsequent author, to belong to a
particular species]
> What's a cheirotype?
[ A type specimen of a species described as a manuscript name...ie. the
name was never validly published]
> And a neotype?
[ A specimen selected when no holotype, paratype or syntypes are extant]
Hope that this clarifies things for everyone ;-)
Charlie
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