designating a photo as holotype?

[Thomas Pape]

> So, if
>the specimen in the present case had been completely destroyed, it would
>still be the holotype, if I used its photo as the basis for the
>description, and someone down the road could therefore only designate a
>*lectotype* to replace the missing holotype.


Ahem.... *neotype*, that is.

Thomas


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