different between hapantotype vs lectotype

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Noun

hapantotype (plural hapantotypes)

1. (taxonomy) Any of two or more type specimens of protistans, where the type consists of two or more specimens of directly related individuals representing distinct stages in the life cycle, and collectively treated as a single entity. Lectotypes cannot be designated from among them.

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (léktos, “chosen”),from ?????? (légein, “to choose”) + ????? (túpos, “blow, impression”).

Noun

lectotype (plural lectotypes)

1. (taxonomy) A biological specimen or illustration later selected to serve as definitive type example of a species or subspecies when the original author of the name did not designate a holotype.
   • 1968, Arcie Lee McAlester, Type Species of Paleozoic Nuculoid Bivalve Genera, Geological Society of America, Memoir 105, page 19,

     The lectotype and paratype, which are before me, are both iron-stained, predominantly internal composite molds of left valves in a fine-grained, white quartzite matrix.

   • 2000, Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, page 27,

     Lectotype designation is justified under article 74.1.1 of the ICZN (1999) in order to fix the status of this specimen as the sole name-bearing type of this species.

Derived terms

• lectotypic
• lectotypification
• lectotypify
• isolectotype
• paralectotype

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See also

• hapantotype

Anagrams

• leptocyte