epitype
Noun
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Noun
epitype (plural epitypes)
- (taxonomy) An additional, clarifying type (specimen or illustration) of a species or lower-order taxon, provided when the holotype and paratypes from the original classification are demonstrably ambiguous or insufficient.
- (genetics, epigenetics) An epigenetic alteration in a gene.
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