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holotype

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hol·o·type (hl-tp, hl-)
n.
The specimen used as the basis of the original published description of a taxonomic group and later designated as the type specimen.


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Holotype Paratype Paratype Paratype Paratype Paratype NCIP NCIP WAM USNM USNM USNM 6350 6351 P.
The CNIGR museum collections contain a few sponges in the Asatkin Collection, inclusive of the holotype of Carpospongia pogrebowi Asatkin, 1949 (Fig.
But it is now too late for it to be the holotype, or name-bearing, specimen.
 
 
 
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