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016package org.gbif.api.vocabulary;
017
018/**
019 *A vocabulary to be used for reasons for a type designation of a specimen or name.
020 * @see <a href="http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/type_designation_type.xml">rs.gbif.org vocabulary</a>
021 */
022public enum TypeDesignationType {
023
024  /**
025   * If one nominal species is explicitly designated as the type species when a nominal genus-group taxon is established,
026   * that nominal species is the type species (type by original designation).
027   */
028  ORIGINAL_DESIGNATION,
029
030  /**
031   *
032   */
033  PRESENT_DESIGNATION,
034
035  /**
036   *
037   */
038  SUBSEQUENT_DESIGNATION,
039
040  /**
041   * Type species by monotypy.
042   * When an author establishes a new nominal genus-group taxon for a single taxonomic species and denotes
043   * that species by an available name, the nominal species so named is the type species.
044   */
045  MONOTYPY,
046
047  /**
048   *
049   */
050  SUBSEQUENT_MONOTYPY,
051
052  /**
053   * If a valid species-group name, or its cited synonym, originally included in a nominal genus-group taxon
054   * is identical with the name of that taxon, the nominal species denoted by that specific name (if available)
055   * is the type species.
056   */
057  TAUTONYMY,
058
059  /**
060   * The identical spelling of a generic or subgeneric name and the specific or subspecific name of one
061   * of its originally included nominal species or subspecies.
062   */
063  ABSOLUTE_TAUTONYMY,
064
065  /**
066   * The identical spelling of a new generic or subgeneric name established before 1931 and a pre-1758 name
067   * cited as a synonym of only one of the species or subspecies originally included in that genus.
068   */
069  LINNAEAN_TAUTONYMY,
070
071  /**
072   * An explicit, published decision by the Commission or Congress
073   */
074  RULING_BY_COMMISSION
075
076}