type vs holotype

[Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX]

My last posting of the millenium :) Question: Has the code of zoological
nomenclature always required that holotypes be designated for type
localities to exist ? Or do old names based on simple descriptions of
"types" simply not have 'official' type localities until somebody designates
a lectotype or neotype ???

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Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
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