name-bearing type

Noun

 * 1)  For a species or lower-order taxon, a type (specimen or illustration) that determines the application of the species name; for a genus, the type species; for a family, the type genus.

Usage notes
At species level or below, a name-bearing type is a physical specimen or illustration (usually the holotype, but it can be a lectotype, neotype or other type). For higher-level taxa (i.e., genus or family), it is a taxonomic group of the next-lower level.

The name-bearing type of a family is the genus whose name forms the root of the family name (e.g., is the type genus of ).