Topic summary
locus classicus
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Type locality (biology).
Terminology and Latin phrases
Several Latin and Latin-derived terms appear frequently in the taxonomic literature in connection with the type locality. The phrase locus typicus (literally "typical place") is a Latin equivalent of "type locality" widely used in zoological publications, especially in European-language literature. In botany, the preferred Latin term is locus classicus (literally "classical place"), denoting the collecting locality of the type specimen or original material of a plant name. The plural form loci classici is also used in botanical literature when discussing multiple such localities. Otero, Fernández-Mazuecos, and Vargas, in a phylogenomic study of Antirrhinum, defined the locus classicus as the locality where plants were originally collected and studied for the description of a new species.