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How do authors decide what specimen to designate as holotype?

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How do authors decide what specimen to designate as holotype?

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They would choose a specimen that has all the characteristics that are shared within the species. These characters would be the ones used in the description of the species and when keying specimens out. The holotype may have characters that others in the species do not have, but it is important that it has all the characters shared by the species.

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