cotypen.
/ˈkəʊtʌɪp/ Botany and Zoology.
One of two or more specimens upon which the description of a species is based; an additional type-specimen; = syntype n. (which has superseded cotype).
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species1644
type1840
type-genus1840
type-species1840
archetype1849
type-specimen1875
monotype1881
necrotype1883
cotype1893
paratype1893
topotype1893
homotype1896
genotype1897
holotype1897
homoeotype1905
lectotype1905
neotype1905
syntype1909
allotype1910
haplotype1914
1893 O. Thomas in Proc. Zool. Soc. 242 A Co-type is one of two or more specimens together forming the basis of a species, no type having been selected.
1898 Smithsonian Rep. 33 A number of valuable types and cotypes of fishes have also been transmitted by the Commission.
1938 Nature 3 Dec. 990/1 The collection [sc. specimens from a fern herbarium] comprises more than 14,000 specimens with more than 800 types and 800 co-types.
1964 Internat. Code Zool. Nomencl. xvi. 79 To avoid misunderstandings, a zoologist should not use the term ‘cotype’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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