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unusual facts about type species


Chloroflexi

The taxon name was created in the 2001 edition of Volume 1 of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and is the Latin plural of the name Chloroflexus, the name of the type genus of the phylum, a common practice.


Astrocaryum

The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.

Batropetes

Fossils attributable to the type species B. fritschi have been collected from the town of Freital in Saxony, Germany, near the city of Dresden.

Batyrosaurus

The type species Batyrosaurus rozhdestvenskyi was in 2012 named and described by Pascal Godefroit, François Escuillié, Yuri Bolotsky and Pascaline Lauters.

Bordered White

It is (under its original scientific name Phalaena piniaria) the type species of its genus Bupalus, as well as the junior objective synonyms Catograpta, Chleuastes and Phaophyga, and the preoccupied Bupala

Brasiliguana

Brasiliguana was named by William R. Nava and Agustín G. Martinelli in 2011 and the type species is Brasiliguana prudentis.

Bruktererpeton

It was first described and named by Jürgen A. Boy and Klaus Bandel in 1973 and the type species is Bruktererpeton fiebigi.

Cargninia

Cargninia was named by José Fernando Bonaparte, César Leandro Schultz, Marina Bento Soares and Agustín G. Martinelli in 2010 and the type species is Cargninia enigmatica.

Caseosaurus

Caseosaurus was described and named by A. P. Hunt, Spencer G. Lucas, Andrew B. Heckert, Robert Sullivan and Martin Lockley in 1998 and the type species is Caseosaurus crosbyensis.

Celoporthe

It was circumscribed in 2006 to contain the type species Celoporthe dispersa, which was found in South Africa growing on trees in the Myrtales.

Celtencrinurus

It was described by Evitt and Tripp in 1977, and the type species is Celtencrinurus multisegmentatus, which was originally described under the genus Amphion by Portlock in 1843.

Cryptolacerta

Cryptolacerta was named by Johannes Müller, Christy A. Hipsley, Jason J. Head, Nikolay Kardjilov, André Hilger, Michael Wuttke and Robert R. Reisz in 2011 and the type species is Cryptolacerta hassiaca.

Darwinopterus

The type species, D. modularis, was described in February 2010.

Deflexula

The type species, Deflexula fascicularis, was originally described in 1901 as Pterula fascicularis by Giacomo Bresadola and Narcisse Théophile Patouillard.

Delorhynchus

It was first named by the paleontologist R. C. Fox in 1962 and the type species is Delorhynchus priscus.

Diamantinasaurus

The type species is D. matildae, in reference to the folk song "Waltzing Matilda", which was written by Banjo Paterson in nearby Winton.

Echinelops

It was first named by Alison M. Murray and Izzet Hoşgör in 2012 and the type species is Echinelops ozcani.

Eoconfuciusornis

The type species of Eoconfuciusornis, Eoconfuciusornis zhengi, was named and described by Zhang Fucheng, Zhou Zhonghe and Michael Benton in 2008.

Euronychodon

The type species of Euronychodon, E. portucalensis was named and described in 1991 by Miguel Telles Antunes and Denise Sigogneau-Russell.

Gerobatrachus

Gerobatrachus is an extinct genus of amphibamid temnospondyl (represented by the type species Gerobatrachus hottoni) that lived in the Early Permian, approximately 290 million years ago (Ma), in the area that is now Baylor County, Texas.

Heloderma

The type species is Heloderma horridum, which was first described in 1829 by Arend Weigmann.

Homodontosaurus

The type species Homodontosaurus kitchingi was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1949.

Itemirus

The type species, Itemirus medullaris, was named and described by Sergei Kurzanov in 1976.

Koinia

Koinia was named in 1993 with the description of the type species K. silantjevi, based on fossils that were found near the Vym River in the Komi Republic.

Kuehneosaurus

It was named by P. L. Robinson in 1962 and the type and only species is Kuehneosaurus latus.

Kuehneosuchus

It was named by P. L. Robinson in 1967 and the type and only species is Kuehneosuchus latissimus.

Kundurosaurus

Kundurosaurus was first described and named by Pascal Godefroit, Yuri L. Bolotsky and Pascaline Lauters in 2012 and the type species is Kundurosaurus nagornyi.

Labocania

The type species, Labocania anomala, was described and named by Ralph Molnar in 1974.

Latoplatecarpus

Latoplatecarpus was named by Takuya Konishi and Michael W. Caldwell in 2011 and the type species is Latoplatecarpus willistoni.

Lejopyge laevigata

In a monograph on Bohemian trilobites, Prodrom einer Monographie der böhmischen Trilobiten (1847), the Czech fossil collector Ignaz Hawle and botanist August Carl Joseph Corda established the genus Lejopyge using B. laevigatus as the type species.

Lepidotus

elvensis Ducrotay de Blainville, 1818 (type)

Losillasaurus

The type species of the turiasaurian Losillasaurus giganteus was discovered in the Los Serranos basin in Valencia and formally described by Casanovas, Santafé and Sanz in 2001.

Lurdusaurus

As Chabli had left the field of paleontology, the type species Lurdusaurus arenatus was formally named by Taquet and Dale Russell in 1999.

Lusonectes

It was first named by Adam S. Smith, Ricardo Araújo and Octávio Mateus in 2012 and the type species is Lusonectes sauvagei.

Masiakasaurus

The type species, Masiakasaurus knopfleri, was named after the musician Mark Knopfler, whose music inspired the expedition crew.

Mexican tetra

The type species of its genus, it is native to the Nearctic ecozone, originating in the lower Rio Grande and the Neueces and Pecos Rivers in Texas, as well as the central and eastern parts of Mexico.

Nomen novum

This is an objective synonym of Jelskia Bourguignat, 1877, because he has the same type species, and is used today as Borysthenia.

Pholidosaurus

The type species of Pholidosaurus is P. schaumburgensis, named in 1841 from the Wealden, or Hastings Sand, of Bückeburg, Germany.

Proplanicoxa

The specimen was assigned to its own genus and species by Kenneth Carpenter and Yusuke Ishida in 2010, and the type species is Proplanicoxa galtoni.

Pseudaleuria

The genus was circumscribed by Demaris Lusk in 1987 to contain the type, P. quinaultiana, a species found in the Olympic Peninsula of North America.

Pseudocolus

The first appearance of the type species, Pseudocolus fusiformis, in the literature was in 1890, under the name Colus fusiformis, when Eduard Fischer wrote a description based on a painting he found in the Paris Museum of Natural History.

Rhiodenticulatus

Rhiodenticulatus was first named by David S. Berman and Robert R. Reisz in 1986 and the type species is Rhiodenticulatus heatoni.

Ruhuhuaria

Ruhuhuaria was first described and named by Linda Akiko Tsuji, Gabriela Sobral and Johannes Müller in 2013 and the type species is Ruhuhuaria reiszi.

Scalopodon

The type species Scalopodon tenuisfrons was named in 1999 from the Kotelnichsky District of Kirov Oblast.

Streaked Bulbul

Depending on whether it is or isn't a particularly close relative of the type species of the genus Ixos, the Sunda Bulbul or Green-winged Bulbul (Ixos virescens), it might belong in a new genus.

Tarchia

Named for its massive skull (Mongolian tarkhi meaning 'brain' and Latin ia), Tarchia currently includes only the type species, T. gigantea.

Urbacodon

The type species, U. itemirensis, was named by Alexander Averianov and Hans-Dieter Sues in 2007 on the basis of a single left dentary with teeth from the Cenomanian Dzharakuduk Formation.

Wesserpeton

Wesserpeton was first named by Steven C. Sweetman and James D. Gardner in 2013 and the type species is Wesserpeton evansae.


see also

Acentrophryne

Fossils of the type species, A. longidens, have been found in Late Miocene strata of Rosedale.

Aggiosaurus

Aggiosaurus was first described and named by H. Ambayrac in 1913, and the type species is Aggiosaurus nicaeensis.

Anshunsaurus

The type species of Ansunsaurus, A. huangguoshuensis, was named in 1999 from the Ladinian or Carnian age Falang Formation in Guanling County.

Banksia ser. Ochraceae

B. benthamiana (Bentham's Banksia) was designated the type species.

Cacatua

The genus was first described by Brisson in 1790, with the White Cockatoo (Cacatua alba) subsequently designated as the type species.

Cachiyacuy

The specific name of the type species is named after the geographical provenance of the specimens, close to the city of Contamana.

Callindra

It consists of a number of South and East Asian species, reviewed by Dubatolov & Kishida (2006), with the type species, Callindra arginalis.

Coccosteus

This is the type species, and is an important index fossil in the continental Devonian sequence of northern Scotland deposited in the Orcadian Basin.

Cystiscidae

Rule of priority of the ICZN require that the name Cystiscidae must be used, but this is unfortunate because the type specimen of the type species is lost, and that species is poorly known.

Depressaria

A.H. Haworth, on establishing the genus Depressaria in his 1811 issues of Lepidoptera Britannica, called the eventual type species Phalaena heraclei, an unjustified emendation of P. (Tortrix) heracliana.

Dixonius siamensis

This is the type species of the genus Dixonius, named after James R. Dixon from Texas A&M University.

Ellesmeroceras

The type species, Ellesmeroceras scheii, named by Foeste, 1921, was first found on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian arctic, from whence the genus gets its name.

Eotheroides

The type species, E. aegyptiacum, is known from the Lutetian Mokattam Limestone of Cairo, Egypt.

Eumetabolodon

The type species is known from the holotype IVPP V6064, a nearly complete skull which was collected in the Zhuengeerqi locality, from the upper Heshanggou Formation (Olenekian and earliest Anisian stages), Ordos Basin.

Hamites

The type species is Hamites attenuatus from the early Albian, named by James Sowerby in his Mineral Conchology of Great Britain of 1814, although the genus itself was created by James Parkinson in his 1811 book Organic Remains of the Former World.

Hemichoanella

The type species, Hemichoanella canningi (Teichert & Glenister) is named in honor of Alfred Canning, who from 1906 to 1908, explored the eastern part of the Desert Basin and who discovered and opened up the Canning Stock Route.

Isla Todos Santos

The type species of the fish genus Bajacalifornia, Bajacalifornia burragei, was discovered during the USS Albatross deep sea expedition off the coast of Todos Santos Bay in 1911.

Lissopimpla excelsa

The orchid dupe wasp was first described by Italian entomologist Achille Costa in 1864 as Pimpla excelsa, before being placed in (and becoming the type species of) the new genus Lissopimpla in 1889 by Joseph Kriechbaumer, who called it Lissopimpla octo-guttata Kriechb.

Mawsonites

The type species is Mawsonites spriggi, named after Douglas Mawson, and Reg Sprigg.

Neviusia

The type species, Neviusia alabamensis, occurs in several southeastern states, while second extant species, Neviusia cliftonii, is endemic to the Mt Shasta region of California, and the extinct species Neviusia dunthornei is found in shale deposits in the Okanagan Highlands of Washington and British Columbia.

Nyasasaurus

The type species N. parringtoni was first described in 1956 in the doctoral dissertation of English paleontologist Alan J. Charig, but it was not formally described until 2013.

Nyctiphruretus

Many fossils of the type species, N. acudens, were found well preserved near the Mezen River of European Russia in various stages of growth.

Orthetrum borneense

It is only known from 10 type species collected on Mount Dulit.

Paraplectronoceras

Paraplectronoceras is a very early nautiloid from the middle Late Cambrian, named by Chen and Qi, 1979, type species Paraplectronoceras pyriforme, for small, endogastrically curved forms found in the upper Yenchou and Wanwankou members of the Fengshan Formation of northeastern China.

Planicoxa

The type species for the genus is Planicoxa venenica, first described by Tony DiCroce and Kenneth Carpenter in 2001.

Pseudoviridae

The type species Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ty1 virus, from the genus pseudovirus and the type species Drosophila melanogaster copia virus from the genus Hemivirus, both belong to the Pseudoviridae family.

Rosieria

The type species R. delsatei was named in 1997 on the basis of a few isolated postcanine teeth found in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in northeastern France.

Sciurumimus

It is known from a single juvenile specimen representing the type species, Sciurumimus albersdoerferi, which was found in a limestone quarry close to Painten in Lower Bavaria.

Seguenzia occidentalis

The type species was found in the Pacific Ocean off Acapulco, Mexico at a depth of 1,200 m.

Seymouria

Fossils of Seymouria were first found in Seymour, Baylor County, Texas (hence the name of the type species, Seymouria baylorensis, or "Baylor County Seymour one").

Similodonta

The type species for the genus, Similodonta similis, has been found in Late Ordovician, Ashgill epoch, sediments of the upper Richmond Group exposed near Spring Valley, Minnesota.

Teyumbaita

This species was reassigned to its own genus by Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro, Max Cardoso Langer and Cesar Leandro Schultz in 2010 and the type species is Teyumbaita sulcognathus.

Tiberia paumotensis

The type species has been found in the Pacific Ocean off the Tuamotus.

Turbonilla halistrepta

The type species was found in the Pacific Ocean off Newport, California.

Tyulkinia

Storozhenko, Cui Yingying in 2010, and the type species is Tyulkinia bashkuevi.

Zapatadon

Zapatadon was first described and named by Víctor-Hugo Reynoso and James M. Clark in 1998, and the name of the genus is a homage to the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, added to the Greek sufix -odon, "tooth", common in other sphenodontian taxa; the name of the type species, ejidoensis is in gratitude to the people of the ejido (communal land area) of El Huizachal, that allow the investigation of the fossils.