Paris Types??

[Robin Leech]

Fine, but what do you do when there is only a holotype, no paratypes?
Robin Leech

On Tue, 12 May 1998, Mammals wrote:

>           A useful custom might be for the describer of new
>           species  to deposit the types with the funding museum and
>           to designate a set of specimens as paratypes
>           for a museum in the country of origin.  Or vice versa.
>
>           Sylvia Hope
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