type species

noun

, Biology.

the species of a genus that is regarded as the best example of the generic characters of the genus; the species from which a genus was originally named.

type species

First recorded in 1830–40

The type-species of this genus is the Negro Cynopithecus, who is wholly black, and a little smaller than the Baboon.

To recognise the identity of phenomena which thus differ only in degree, we must assume a type-species.

Within each of the families the species branch off from a parent or type species.

There has been considerable debate as to whether Geoffroy did or did not designate a type species of the genus Trionyx (1809a).

There are more than twenty type species named from the Mountain, not a few of which are found nowhere else.

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