Neotype

Neotype [ Taxonomy ]
Abbreviation: NT

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names


	A neotype is a specimen or illustration later selected to serve as the type for naming a species or subspecies when all the original specimens (holotype, lectotype, and syntype) have been lost or destroyed and no longer exist.

Isoneotypes are duplicate specimens of the neotype.

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