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Type species is a bit in a large article that also and also and also discusses. I think it would be a better idea to split up that article to discuss the holotypes et al and seperatie the type species bit out of there. GerardM 20:58, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
This article does a pretty poor job of explaining that a type species is just a species of name foo bar, where foo = bar, and that that's really all there is to it. (And if that's not the case, well then it does a *really* poor job of it, but that's what I was able to glean from the link to the article on the sunfish node.) -- Belg4mit 04:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Not being a biologist, I have no idea what anything in this article means. It was linked from this sentence in
Passerine: "The names "passerines" and "Passeriformes" are derived from Passer domesticus, the scientific name of the
type species – the
House Sparrow..." --
64.149.41.29 (
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13:53, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
This article could benefit from a few example of type species species. For example, Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and Spectral Tarsier (Tarsius tarsier). Surikell ( talk) 06:31, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
I couldn't agree more, I think much of the confusion arises from the lack of examples. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.142.224.132 ( talk) 18:09, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
And maybe pointing out for us non-specialists that it is talking about those species whose two-part names are made up of the same Latin word twice. (If I understand the article correctly.) -- 79.209.29.186 ( talk) 15:53, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I had a go at fixing it up a bit, including giving one example. Currently the section within the article Type (biology)#Types in zoology gives a clearer explanation of Type species than this article does. Invertzoo ( talk) 19:36, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
The diagramme is 'explained' as "Diagrammatic representation of different nomenclatural interpretations for species. Each taxonomist has a different view for genus attribution, but the reference on type species is preserved, and ensures precise communication."
So I'm told that, "the reference on type species is preserved", but how could I know this from the diagramme???
Better would be: "the reference on type species is preserved, as shown by .........".
—DIV (
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11:25, 7 December 2016 (UTC))
For example, the type species for the land snail genus Monacha is Monacha cartusiana.
It seems like this is a misleading example since M. cartusiana was described in Helix. This makes this make the type species Helix cartusiana, no?
Umimmak (
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14:05, 12 April 2018 (UTC)