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type of Alpha Smith, even if it later results that Smith did not know 
that species, what he thought to be that, being in reality a very 
different species. 
97. In regard to the genotypes of polybasic genera the following 
rules apply: 
a. When an author, in describing a new genus, mentions or refers 
to any valid specific name, except one doubtfully included or quoted 
in synonymy, as type, typus, genotype, &c., or states that the genus 
is “based on” or “erected for’ (or such similar phrase) some one 
species, then the species properly represented by that specific name 
is the genotype, irrespective of misidentification. 
b. If a specific name not originally included in the genus, but 
with an originally included species quoted in synonymy, is desig- 
nated as the genotype of an established genus such designation is 
deemed valid for the species in synonymy. 
Example.—A [pha Smith 1870, based on two new species, alba and 
nigra. In 1880 the genotype is,designated as “brunnea Jones 1860 
(=nigra Smith 1870).” Then, by the above rule, nigra Smith 
1870 is the properly designated type of Alpha. 
c. If a genus, established in the text, is also given on a previous 
page in a synoptic table with the mention of a valid specific name 
or names, the type is not thereby selected or restricted. 
98. If the author of a polybasic genus has not established the 
genotype by any of the above methods, it may be selected by any 
one as follows: 
a. The first author to select as type one of the originally unques- 
tionably included, specific names fixes the genotype, provided such 
specific name has not already been properly chosen as the type of 
another genus, and such selected specific name represents the type, 
irrespective of misidentification. 
b. Tf all the originally unquestionably included species of a genus 
are already properly selected as types of other genera, any one of 
them may be chosen as the type of this genus. 
99. A specific name cited as the genotype with a query, or indi- 
cated as the probable type, is not thereby the type. 
100. If two or more species are cited at one place as types of one 
genus, neither is thereby the type, nor is type selection restricted. 
