different between zootype vs ootype

English

From zoo- +? type. In the biological sense, by analogy with phylotype.

zootype (plural zootypes)

(biology) A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.
(symbology) An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.

From Ancient Greek; corresponding to oo- +? -type.

ootype (plural ootypes)

(zoology) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

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