Question

Holotype is

• A. Specimen used by the person as nomenclatural type
• B. Duplicate of the nomenclatural type
• C. Specimens mentioned while describing a new taxa on which the description is not based
• D. Specimens of a taxa deposited by different workers

Answer 1

The correct option is A Specimen used by the person as nomenclatural type

Holotype is a single specimen along with the description. On this holotype the name of the genus, species are mentioned and the description is also given. This is done by a single team or a person. The duplicate of the nomenclatural type is called isotype

So the correct option is A.