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 ### Custom tracer implementation
 
-Implementations can subclass `opentracing.Trace`, `opentracing.Span`, and the other API classes to build an OpenTracing tracer and implement the underscore prefixed methods such as `_addTag` to pick up a bit of common code implemented in the base classes.
+Implementations can subclass `opentracing.Tracer`, `opentracing.Span`, and the other API classes to build an OpenTracing tracer and implement the underscore prefixed methods such as `_addTag` to pick up a bit of common code implemented in the base classes.
 
 ### API compatibility testing