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Definition of Neotype

1. a specimen of a species [n -S]

Medical Definition of Neotype

1. A specimen selected as type specimen subsequent to the original description in cases where the original holotype, or lectotype, or all paratypes, or all syntypes are lost or destroyed, or suppressed by the Commission. (09 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neotype

Literary usage of Neotype

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"neotype: A nearly complete skull (No. 10838, Amer. Museum coll.). Type locality: Niobrara River near ... Same for neotype. Author's description (op. cit. ..."

2. Catalogue of the Type and Figured Specimens of Fossils, Minerals, Rocks, and by George Perkins Merrill, Charles Schuchert (1905)
"neotype.—Cossmann, in proposing this term, gave it also two meanings, ... on the basis of his second meaning, as follows: neotype for the specimen ..."

3. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"Cossmann considered Dall's remarks as correct but chose P. dumosa as genotype (neotype). Finlay and Marwick (Geol. Survey New Zealand, Pal. Bull., No. ..."

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