type locality

noun

type locality

The place or source where a holotype or type species was first found and recognized.
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.

It inhabits an area of light-colored sandy soil at the type locality.

Baird, in the original description, gives "near Fort Massachusetts" as the type locality for this subspecies.

The habitat at the type locality is such that a person would not expect it to be inhabited by kangaroo rats.

Even so, 500 traps set in the area of the type locality over a period of two nights yielded no Dipodomys.

The specimens seem not to differ from Texan specimens from the type locality and Mustang Island.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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