type specimen
holotype

It is particularly important for fish, including 16 type specimens.

For long it was known only from this type specimen.

Only one plant has ever been seen: the type specimen.

This individual, the first of the species to be described, is the type specimen.

Several species are known only from type specimens collected in the late 1800s.

It has only ever been collected one time for study, when the type specimen was taken.

The type specimen of this species was collected in 1909.

The type specimen of this plant was collected in 1926.

Overall the body of the type specimen is a uniform dark brown.

From them, 800 lots are type specimens, either primary or secondary.