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Acarospora janae

It is known only from the type locality, and a modern collection made from Marks Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina, although Knudsen suggests that it may occur infrequently from Utah and the Colorado Plateau south into Mexico.

Anatoma emilioi

This species is only known from its type locality in the Hawaiian Islands, where it was found in depths between 37 and 183 m, in Mamala Bay, Oahu.

Barremian

The original type locality for the Barremian stage is in the vicinity of the village of Barrême, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.

Boracite

It was first described in 1789 for specimens from its type locality of Kalkberg hill, Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Bothrochilus

Found on the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, including Umboi, New Britain, Gasmata (off the southern coast), Duke of York and nearby Mioko, New Ireland and nearby Tatau (off the east coast), the New Hanover Islands and Nissan Island, the type locality given is "Nouvelle Irlande" (New Ireland).

Brookesia griveaudi

Brookesia griveaudi is endemic to northeastern Madagascar, and has a type locality of the Marojejy National Park and on the Marojejy Massif, in the region of Sava.

Coburgosuchus

The genus was named for Coburg, Germany, the type locality where specimens have been found dating back to the Late Triassic.

Condurrite

It takes its name from the Great Condurrow Mine at Troon, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, which is regarded as the type locality.

Convex-tailed horned toad

The convex-tailed horned toad (Xenophrys caudoprocta) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family, endemic to China, and is only known from the type locality, Tianping Mountain, Sangzhi County, in Hunan.

Crotalus polystictus

The type locality given is "Table Land, Mexico", although a restriction to "Tupátaro, Guanajuanto, Mexico" was proposed by H.M. Smith and Taylor (1950).

Fejervarya moodiei

It has in the past been often mixed with Fejervarya cancrivora; its distribution is not well known but includes the Philippines (its type locality is Manila, Luzon), Thailand, Hainan Island (China), and India.

Glacidorbis hedleyi

The type locality is Blue Lake, Mount Kosciuszko, New South Wales, Australia.

Gloydius halys

According to Gloyd and Conant (1990), the type locality given is "Salt Lake near the Lugaskoi Sawod (factory) on the Upper Yenisey" (Siberia, Russia).

Gonnardite

The type locality (the place where the mineral was first described) is La Chaux de Bergonne, Gignat, Saint-Germain-Lembron, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France, and type material from this locality is held at the Natural History Museum, London, England, registration number BM.1930,166.

Hilgardite

In addition to the type locality it has been reported in Wayne County, Mississippi and in the Louann Salt Formation, Clarke County, Alabama in the United States and at the Penobsquis and Salt Springs evaporites, near Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada.

Isbrueckerichthys

The type locality of I. saxicola is a small creek located near the urban area of Londrina city, flowing through a landscape of mixed open fields and riparian vegetation, sometimes with a very degraded margin.

Kimberleymelon tealei

The type locality of Kimberleymelon tealei is Middle Osborn Island, Bonaparte Archipelago in north-western Kimberley, Western Australia.

Kurnakovite

In addition to the type locality in Kazakhstan, kurakovite has also been reported from the Zhacang-Caka brine lake, Tibet; the Kirka borate deposit, Kiitahya Province, Turkey; the Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California; Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, California; and the Tincalayu borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta Province, Argentina.

Leptobrachium buchardi

It is endemic to Laos and only known from the Bolaven Plateau in the Champasak Province, near its type locality within the Dong Houa Sao National Biodiversity Conservation Area.

Leptolalax melicus

It is endemic to Cambodia where it is only known from near its type locality, Virachey National Park, Ratanakiri Province; it is expected to have a wider distribution that may reach Laos and Vietnam.

Liasis mackloti

The type locality given is "les îles de Timor et de Samao." Brongersma (1968) restricted the type locality to "Timor" by lectotype designation.

Lithoglyphus apertus

The type locality is "in der Save bei Agram in Croatien", which means in the Sava River near Zagreb, Croatia.

Mendipite

The type locality is Churchill, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, and type material is conserved at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

Mengla County

A tiny frog, Raorchestes menglaensis (knonw as the Zhishihe's bubble-nest frog or Mengla small treefrog) is only known from its type locality, Zhishihe in Mengla County.

Mesochorista proavita

The type locality belongs to the Blackstone Formation (Ipswich Coal Measures Group) and is dated to the Carnian age (228.0 - 216.5 million years ago) of the Triassic period.

Oreolalax liangbeiensis

Oreolalax liangbeiensis (Liangbei toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family endemic to China: it is only known from the vicinity of its type locality, Puxiong in the Yuexi County, Sichuan.

Osmunda wehrii

The cherts were recovered from sediments outcropping near the contact of the Roza Basalts and the overlying Priest Rapids Basalts, designated the type locality, near the town of Beverly, Washington by Fred Brinkman of Sunnyside, Washington.

Pinus driftwoodensis

Pinus driftwoodensis has been identified from a single location, the type locality, at the Driftwood Canyon exposure of Ootsa Lake Group sediments near Smithers, British Columbia in the Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park.

Plumbogummite

The type locality is Huelgoat, Finistère, Brittany, France, and the type material is stored in the Natural History Museum, Paris, France.

Porthidium dunni

The type locality given is "the immediate vicinity of the village of Tehuantepec" Oaxaca, Mexico.

Porthidium volcanicum

Known only from the type locality, which is given as "Ujarrás de Buenos Aires (Valle del General, suoeste de la provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica)" (Volcán de Buenos Aires and Valle del General in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica.

Potadoma buttikoferi

The type locality is "on rocks in the St. Paul's River near Bavia", Liberia.

Pseudobithynia renei

The type locality is (in French language) "Marais de Cressida près Corfou", Corfu, Greece.

Pseudotyphlops

The type locality given is "Philippinschen Inseln": in error, according to M.A. Smith (1943).

Psilocybe tampanensis

For almost two decades after its discovery, Psilocybe tampanensis was known only from the type locality, southeast of Brandon, Florida.

Raorchestes menglaensis

Only known from its type locality, Zhishihe in Mengla County, it is endemic to Yunnan, China, although it is expected to occur more widely, including adjacent Laos.

Riedaster reicheli

Its type locality is Papierschifer, which is in a shallow subtidal mudstone in the Papierschiefer Formation in the Ried district of Germany.

Saleeite

It was later determined that the Katanga mineral was meta-saleeite Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2·8(H2O) and the type locality was assigned to the Weißer Hirsch Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.

Thiviers-Payzac Unit

The schist crops out in a 3 kilometer wide, slightly curved band that starts at the type locality Donzenac and extends to Lanouaille.

Utahite

It was first described in 1997 for an occurrence in the Centennial Eureka mine, one mile southeast of Eureka, Tintic District, Juab County, Utah, USA (type locality).

Vipera latifii

The type locality is listed as "Hochtal von Lar (2180-2900 m Höhe), südwestlisch des Demavend-Gipfels im Elburs-Gebirge, nordöstlich von Tehran, Iran" High valley of the Lar (7,150–9,500 ft), southwest of Demavend Peak in the Elburz Mountains, northwest of Tehran, Iran.

Vipera nikolskii

The type locality, according to Golay et al. (1993), is the banks of the Uda River, between Besljudovka and Vasishtshevo, near Kharkov.

Whiteite

The type locality for whiteite-(CaFeMg)and whiteite-(MnFeMg) is the Ilha claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and for whiteite-(CaMnMg) it is the Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA.


see also

Acanthogonatus nahuelbuta

Acanthogonatus nahuelbuta is a mygalomorph spider of Chile, named after its type locality: Piedra del Águila, Parque Nacional Nahuel-Buta, Malleco.

Actihema msituni

The species name is derived from msituni (the Swahili word for in the forest) and refers to the name of the type locality and the habitat.

Bellubrunnus

The generic name is derived from the Latin bellus meaning 'beautiful' and brunnus in reference to Brunn, its type locality.

Brookesia thieli

Brookesia thieli, commonly also known as Domergue's leaf chameleon, is a species of chameleon endemic to eastern Madagascar, with a type locality of Ambodimanga, Andapa.

Cameraria walsinghami

The species is named in honor of Lord Walsingham (Thomas de Grey), a pioneer microlepidopterist who had collected extensively in the general areas of the type-locality during 1871-1872.

Canopy chameleon

Furcifer willsii can be found in central Madagascar, with a type locality of west Imerina Imady, in the forest region.

Carinotrachia admirale

The type locality of Carinotrachia admirale is Middle Osborn Island, Bonaparte Archipelago in north-western Kimberley, Western Australia.

Carrizal Seedeater

bamboo forest on the type locality – has been cleared to allow construction of the Tocoma Dam, but researchers are hopeful of finding the birds living elsewhere.

Cattierite

In addition to the type locality in the Katanga district it is reported from Gansberg, Black Forest, Germany; near Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden; Bald Knob, near Sparta, Alleghany County, North Carolina and in the Fletcher mine of Reynolds County, Missouri.

Cecina manchurica

The specific name manchurica refers to Manchuria, the historical region where its type locality was situated.

Chinle Formation

It was named for Chinle Valley in Apache County, Arizona by Herbert E. Gregory in 1917 without officially designating it as the formation's name until two years later and without a specified type locality.

Chloritis vanbruggeni

The type locality is Indonesia, Central Sulawesi, Pulau Island Peleng, Gunung Mount Tatarandang, near village at foot of the mountain in low vegetation.

Drymaeus branneri

The type locality of Drymaeus branneri is above Porto Velho along the Madeira-Mamoré railroad (= ca. 260 km South-West of Porto Velho), Rondônia, Brazil.

Elasmia mandela

The name of subspecies Elasmia mandela santaana refers to its type locality, the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Texas.

Escadabiidae

The name of the type genus Escadabius is combined from the type locality Escada (Pernambuco, Brazil, and Ancient Greek bios "living".

Hypsamasia

Hypsamasia seni was named in reference to its high crowned cheek teeth (Greek: hypsos, "height"), the type locality (the Roman town and province Amasya), and after Dr Sevket Sen for his important contribution to the paleontology and geology of western Asia.

Inchoatia inchoata

Range: The type locality is "Louros-Durchbruch nahe Ay. Yeoryios bei Arta", Louros gorge (of the Louros river) near Ay.

Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle

Type locality: "India, fl. Ganges, Penang"; restricted by Smith (1931:162) to "Fatehgarh, Ganges," India = "India: Ganges; Futtaghur" (Gray 1864: 92)

Jackson's mongoose

Reginald Ernest Moreau, George Henry Evans Hopkins and Robert William Hayman in 1945/46 restricted the type locality at Mianzini to a few miles east-southeast of Lake Naivasha, on the southern end of the Kinangop Plateau and to an elevation of 9000 ft (2743 m).

Kenyasaurus

The specific name is derived from the name of the type locality of the genus, Mariakani.

Kimberleydiscus fasciatus

The type locality of Kimberleydiscus fasciatus is the Bigge Island, Bonaparte Archipelago in north-western Kimberley, Western Australia.

Lepthoplosternum stellatum

This species is so far known from the type locality only, the Igarapé Repartimento, a tributary of the mouthbay lake, Tefé Lake, some 6 km south of the town of Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil.

Lherzolite

The name is derived from the Lherz Massif, an alpine peridotite complex (also known as orogenic lherzolite complex), (the type locality) at Étang de Lers, near Massat in the French Pyrenees; Lherz is the archaic spelling of this location.

Lophopleurella capensis

The type locality for this species is South Africa.

Martinique curly-tailed lizard

While André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron stated Martinique and Trinidad and Tobago as type locality George Albert Boulenger has given only Trinidad and Tobago as terra typica.

Nepenthes spectabilis

Plants from the type locality produce relatively broad upper pitchers, while those from Mount Pangulubao are much narrower.

Népouite

Lizardite is named after its type locality on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK.

Ostenoteuthidae

The type locality for up to date known two species is near village Osteno, Lake Lugano, Province of Como, northern Italy.

Periclase

In addition to its type locality, it is reported from Predazzo, Tyrol, Austria; Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland; Broadford, Skye and the island of Muck, Scotland; León, Spain; the Bellerberg volcano, Eifel district, Germany; Nordmark and Långban, Varmland, Sweden; and Kopeysk, southern Ural Mountains, Russia.

Phyllodactylus kofordi

The type locality of this gecko is the Cerro La Vieja in the Peruvian Region of Lambayeque.

Phymorhynchus turris

The type locality is off Cape Muroto, Nankai Trough, 32°21.3' N, 134°32.0' E, Japan, in the depth 3540 m.

Polymitia laristana

It is known from Iran, the type locality is southern Iran, just north of Bandar Abbas.

Pommerhelix monacha

The type locality is "Australia", which can be specified to Sassafras Gully, Springwood, New South Wales, Australia.

Prodoxus atascosanellus

The species name refers to the type locality, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo river delta of southern Texas.

Pseudotocinclus juquiae

The type locality, a small creek in Juquitiba, is clear, with a slow current, mud, and in some places, sand on the bottom.

Purplish Honeycreeper

The type locality on the specimen’s label was given as Caracas in Venezuela.

Rana sangzhiensis

It is known only from Mount Tianping, in Sangzhi County, Hunan (the type locality), and from Mount Dadong in Lianxian County, Guangdong.

Roscidotoga lamingtonia

The species name is derived from the type locality, Lamington National Park.

Sandia Hairstreak

Many hairstreaks make their appearance early, then are seen no more...Goldy-green with a white stripe below, it blends perfectly with its larval host...I found the plant, and the butterfly, in its type locality (= place of original collection and description) — the Sandia Mountains, outside Albuquerque.

Sinonatrix percarinata

Type locality: Guadun (formerly spelled as Kuatun), Wuyishan City (former Chongan County) in NW Fujian, China.

Sparbambus

The species name refers to the type locality, the Ulu Gombak Field Studies Centre of the University of Malaya.

Tonalite

The name is derived from the type locality of tonalites, adjacent to the Tonale Line, a major structural lineament and mountain pass, Tonale Pass, in the Italian and Austrian Alps.

Trochetia parviflora

After botanist Philip Burnard Ayres collected the last known specimens in 1863 it was long regarded as lost until 76 individuals were rediscovered in April 2001 by the Mauritian botanists Vincent Florens and Jean-Claude Sevathian, from the Mauritius Herbarium, on a rocky slope of the Corps de Garde six kilometres apart from the type locality.

Urodeta faro

The species name is derived from the type locality, the floodplain of the Faro River.

Wesserpeton

The type locality (Bed 38) is exposed at Yaverland while the rest (Bed L2) are exposed high in the cliff at Sudmoor Point but have yielded only NHMUK PV R36539, R36522 and R36553–36558.

Wüstite

In addition to the type locality in Germany, it has been reported from Disko Island, Greenland; the Jharia coalfield, Jharkhand, India and as inclusions in diamonds in a number of kimberlite pipes.