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neotype|ˈniːəʊtaɪp|
[f. neo- + type.]
1. Min. A variety of calcite containing barytes.
1854Dana Syst. Min. (ed. 4) II. 438 A variety [of calcite] contains barytes and has been named neotype by Breithaupt.
2. Taxonomy. [a. F. néotype (A. E. M. Cossman Essais de Paléoécologie Comparée (1896) II. 2 and (1904) VI. 9), f. neo- + type n.1 8.] A specimen designated as a type, in the absence of any other type material.
1905C. Schuchert in Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 53. 13 The term is here used as redefined by Cossman in 1904..as follows: Neotype for the specimen afterwards taken as the type of a species when the original type has been destroyed. 1961G. G. Simpson Princ. Animal Taxonomy i. 32 Neotype: a substitute for a type that has been lost or (in some usages) is otherwise inadequate for the type role. (Neotypes have not hitherto been recognized in the Rules, but there are proposals to incorporate them therein.) 1966Internat. Code Bot. Nomenclature ii. 19 A neotype is a specimen or other element selected to serve as nomenclatural type as long as all of the material on which the name of the taxon was based is missing. |