Holotype fragment (botany)

[Richard Pyle]

Just for clarity, those were not my hypothetical questions; they were Dick
Jensen's. I already answered Dick in a similar way.

Aloha,
Rich

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> At 18:23 12.01.2006, Richard Pyle wrote:
>
> >  Could a mammalian name be based solely on the left hind foot of the
> >animal?  Could an insect name be based on just the thorax?
> Could a tapeworm
> >name be based on a single segment?
>
> The answer is clearly: yes. For example, the Okapi (Ocapia johnstoni
> Sclater, 1901) was described solely on the basis of a piece of skin.
> Art. 72.5.1. explicitly states that "an animal, or any part of an
> animal, or an example of the fossilized work of an animal, or of the
> work of an extant animal if the name based on it was established
> before 1931" are eligible to be a name-bearing type.
>
>                                          Best regards
>                                            Michael
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