Each of a set of type specimens of equal status, upon which the description and name of a new species is based.
〔植，动〕共型，共模标本，合模式（标本）。比较HOLOTYPE
Compare with holotype
Example sentencesExamples
A syntype arises when the original author cited more than one specimen, but either designated none, or more than one, as type; the term is lectosyntype when a syntype is later designated as type.
Today's taxonomists have to make a decision as to which of the two specimens found among the syntypes should keep the original name and which gets a ‘new’ species name.
As noted above, it closely resembles the syntype pygidium of E. acadicus, and is tentatively assigned to that species.
Of the syntypes on which he based the species, only two are currently known to be extant.
One of the syntypes of Archidemsus macnicoli was found at an unknown site in Tayside and the other was found in the Carmyllie quarry complex near Arbroath.
Definition of syntype in US English:
syntype
nounˈsintīp
Botany Zoology
Each of a set of type specimens of equal status, upon which the description and name of a new species is based.
〔植，动〕共型，共模标本，合模式（标本）。比较HOLOTYPE
Compare with holotype
Example sentencesExamples
One of the syntypes of Archidemsus macnicoli was found at an unknown site in Tayside and the other was found in the Carmyllie quarry complex near Arbroath.
Of the syntypes on which he based the species, only two are currently known to be extant.
A syntype arises when the original author cited more than one specimen, but either designated none, or more than one, as type; the term is lectosyntype when a syntype is later designated as type.
As noted above, it closely resembles the syntype pygidium of E. acadicus, and is tentatively assigned to that species.
Today's taxonomists have to make a decision as to which of the two specimens found among the syntypes should keep the original name and which gets a ‘new’ species name.