nominate speciesn.
/ˈnɒmᵻnət ˈspiːʃɪz/, /ˈnɒmᵻnət ˈspiːʃiːz/, /ˈnɒmᵻnət ˈspiːsɪz/, /ˈnɒmᵻnət ˈspiːsiːz/, U.S. /ˈnɑmənət ˈspiʃiz/, /ˈnɑmənət ˈspisiz/ 1. Zoology. A species with which a particular available name is associated; a nominal species; esp. the species associated with a particular specific name, as distinct from a species or subspecies subsequently distinguished from it. Cf. nominate adj. 4.
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1956 Q. Rev. Biol. 31 144/2 For every nominate species studied by Clarke there are given the reference to the original description, the type designation..and the labeling of the type.
1975 Evolution 29 617/2 Shields..observed inversion polymorphisms in chromosomes 2 and 5 which are common to six nominate species of the genus Junco.
1998 Ann. Transvaal Mus. 36 373 C. nudipleura aequatorialis Endrody-Younga, 1981, is synonymized with its nominate species, C. nudipleura Endrody-Younga, 1981.
2. Geology and Palaeontology. A fossil species which gives its name to a stratigraphic zone of which it is characteristic.
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1967 Jrnl. & Proc. Royal Soc. New S. Wales 1966 100 151 The conodont fauna is that of the Upper Eifelian kockeliana-Zone. This constitutes the first recognition of this zone (with its nominate species Polygnathus kockeliana) outside Western Europe.
1993 Marine Micropaleontol. 21 293 A new latest Cretaceous to mid Late Paleocene zonation based on the radiolarian succession at four of these sections... Six new interval zones are defined by the first appearances of the nominate species.
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