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type species
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term used in zoological nomenclature (also non-officially in 'botanical' nomenclature)
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Encyclopedic overview
Columba oenas, the stock dove, is the type species of the genus Columba.
A type species (species typica) is the species considered to be permanently taxonomically associated with the name of a genus or subgenus, and that is used to identify it and distinguish it from others. In modern times, it is normally assigned when the genus or subgenus is first named. Any taxonomic revisions must be done in such a way that the genus or subgenus retains the type species if the genus is to keep its name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “type species” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.