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ON TYPIFYING NAMES VALIDATED BY PLATES UNACCOMPANIED BY TEXT
Author(s) -
Cheek Martin
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1222652
Subject(s) - code (set theory) , linguistics , code of practice , history , computer science , philosophy , programming language , engineering , engineering ethics , set (abstract data type)
Summary It is shown here that names validated by analytical plates unaccompanied by text should, according to the articles of the current Code, be typified by using the plates as holotypes rather than by attempting to select, as lectotypes, specimens on which the plates might be based.