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What is an autonym in taxonomy?
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Important Questions on Taxonomy and Systematic Botany
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Which type clarifies ambiguous holotype application?
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How is the priority of nomenclature maintained?
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A specimen selected as the type when all of the material on which original specimen is missing is called
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What happens when two names are published for the same taxon?
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Why is the holotype critical in taxonomy?
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Which nomenclatural type represents the original description of a species?
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What is a syntype in the absence of a holotype?
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Specimen used for original publication by the author is
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What are syntypes in nomenclature?
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Which nomenclatural type is designated when a holotype is not available?
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What is the purpose of a conserved type?
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Which nomenclatural type provides additional reference for identification?
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What does the term "nomenclatural type" refer to in taxonomy?
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How are isotypes related to the holotype?
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The single specimen designated as the type of a species by the original author at the time the species name and description was published is called
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What is the role of an isotype in taxonomy?
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Duplicate specimen of the holotype collected from same population by same person on same date with same field number is called _____.(isotype, lectotype, syntype, paratype)
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Specimen derived from non-original collection serves as the nomenclatural type, when original specimen is missing. It is known as
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What is a lectotype?
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What is the difference between a neotype and an epitype?
