nominotypical

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nominotypical (not comparable)

(zoology, botany) Of a subspecies: nominate, having a name which repeats the species name, designating that it represents the originally described population.
Motacilla alba alba is the nominotypical subspecies of the white wagtail (Motacilla alba).
(zoology, botany) Of a subgenus or other infrageneric taxon: having a name which repeats the genus name, indicating that it includes the type species. For older botanical subgeneric and sectional names, it is sometimes prefixed with Eu-.
- 2002, Ross H. Arnett, JR, Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, J. Howard Frank, American Beetles, Volume II, page 646:
  Four species of the nominotypical subgenus are positively recorded from America north of Mexico... [referring to Physonota (Physonota) arizonae and three other species]