Date:    Thu, 7 Dec 2000 07:51:11 -0500
From:    G Thomas Watters <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: types


>Not to interfere in your nation's internal affairs...but isn't it time you
>get together and determine your eloctotype?
>

>  We already have a sleezotype in office.

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

>  Cotype - I thought a cotype was any specimen, from the type lot or not,
>  that the author identified as a specimen of his species.

I believe that is called an Idiotype or Ideotype.  Cotype and
Syntypes are synonymous as far as I know.

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Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
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