type specimen in English

noun
1
the specimen, or each of a set of specimens, on which the description and name of a new species is based.
The above description is based upon the type specimen , USNM 371708, and numerous paratypes in USNM 371699 and 337411.
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1. The type specimen for the species is CGM26901.

2. The type specimen was collected in the northern end of the Grampians National Park.

3. The type specimen (IVPP V 11120) is represented only by a very large anterior dorsal vertebra.

4. The plant is named after A. F. G. Kerr, who collected the type specimen in Laos in 1932.

5. The Chondrites of the CR group are named for their type specimen Renazzo, which fell in Italy in 1824

6. The type specimen is a cast of a large footprint catalogued as UCMP 79690-4, with casts of three other prints included in the hypodigm.

7. Since the discovery of the type specimen, it has been found off the eastern coast of the United States, Ireland, the Canary Islands, western Africa, and Ascension Island.