different between homotypic vs antimere

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homotypic (not comparable)

(botany) literally "with the same type". In botanical nomenclature a homotypic synonym (or nomenclatural synonym) is a synonym that comes into being through a nomenclatural act
1. when a taxon gets a new name, without being included in another taxon (of the same rank). The old name becomes a homotypic synonym of the new name.
2. when a new name for a taxon is coined without displacing the existing name, the new name becomes a homotypic synonym.
The zoological equivalent is "objective synonym".

anti- +? -mere

antimere (plural antimeres)

(biology) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

antimere

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