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What is a paratype?

What is a paratype? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (taxonomy) A physical specimen (or an illustration) that is not the holotype but is considered the same taxon by the author of the holotype.
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The lectotype and paratype, which are before me, are both iron-stained, predominantly internal composite molds of left valves in a fine-grained, white quartzite matrix.
An additional 113 paratype specimens representing these species and an additional 20 taxa are present.
A paratype has elytra fulvous of dilute ferruginous cast with black mottlings.
S Albion, Idaho, which are darker and much more ochraceous than the paratype, necessarily are more nearly typically colored.
You will never find a Schuh allotype, as to Toby, this is just a female paratype.
The paratype was calling at night from a low herb at the edge of a small stream in the cloud forest.

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