International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

(If no name-bearing type is believed to be extant a neotype may be fixed; see Article 75 for cond...

The name-bearing type is used in the nomenclature to have an objective standard of reference that...

Thus the name-bearing type of a nominal species-group taxon is a specimen or a set of specimens (...

In zoological nomenclature, the biological type (normally either a genus, species, or specimen) t...

The name-bearing type of a nominal family-group taxon is a nominal genus called the "type genus";...