type locality
Americannoun
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Biology. the locality in which a type specimen was collected.
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Geology. the place at which a type section is located.
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The place or source where a holotype or type species was first found and recognized.
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The place or region chosen as a standard of reference when describing a type of mineral, rock, series of rocks, or formation. The type locality is the place where that particular type occurs in its most classic form.
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It was described alongside another new species, Cnemaspis sathuragiriensis, which was named for its type locality the Sathuragiri Hills.
From Salon
This summer, geologists even settled on a “type locality” for the Anthropocene marker: Crawford Lake, Ontario.
From Los Angeles Times
It is the rarer north eastern populations that will keep the original scientific name of Leopardus tigrinus because they live geographically closer to the type locality and the more common southern form that will acquire the newly recognised scientific name of Leopardus guttulus.
From BBC
Under each subspecies, the citation to the original description is given with mention of type locality.
From Project Gutenberg
Tamaulipan specimens of P. o. pallidus differ from topotypes and other specimens from the vicinity of the type locality in averaging somewhat paler dorsally and slightly smaller in cranial dimensions when specimens of equal age are compared.
From Project Gutenberg
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