"Monotypic" redirects here. For the conservation biology term, see Monotypic habitat. For other uses, see Monotype (disambiguation).
"Monospecific" redirects here. For the immunology term, see Monospecific antibody.
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.[1] A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispecific" or "monospecific" is sometimes preferred. In botanical nomenclature, a monotypic genus is a genus in the special case where a genus and a single species are simultaneously described.[2] In contrast, an oligotypic taxon contains more than one but only a very few subordinate taxa.
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as the term monotypic is used to describe a taxon including only one subdivision, the contained taxon can also be referred to as monotypic within the higher-level...
group of species. Clade Crown group Glossary of scientific naming Monotypictaxon Paraphyly Polyphyly Allaby, Michael (2015). A Dictionary of Ecology...
although it is not related to influenza) in humans and animals. It is a monotypictaxon containing only one species, the Sapporo virus. Natural hosts for the...
Chinese: 荔枝; pinyin: lìzhī; Jyutping: lai6 zi1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nāi-chi) is a monotypictaxon and the sole member in the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae...
It has only one species, Hackerobrachys viridiventris, making it a monotypictaxon. This species was originally described as Olonia viridiventris in 1863...
long, with bands of cilia. B. hostilis is the only species in the monotypictaxon Brooklynella, a genus in the order Hartmannulidae. It reproduces by...
throughout the canyons by its distinctive, loud song. It is currently in a monotypictaxon and is the only species in the genus Catherpes. The taxonomy of the...
this species. The genus Drymarchon was formerly considered to be a monotypictaxon formed by subspecies of D. corais. Currently the genus includes six...
American zoologist Henry Weed Fowler classified this species in the monotypictaxon Aspitrigla, a subgenus of Chelidonichthys, and the red gurnard is the...
creation of a new family, Elachuridae, to accommodate just one species (a monotypictaxon). The spotted elachura measures 10 cm including its short tail. It...
the only member of the genus Cybiosarda, which is therefore called a monotypictaxon. Since the bonitos and tunas are close relatives, this fish has variously...
replaced by cations Monobasic, or Monotypictaxon, a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon Monobasic, an album by Jess...
Sea. This fish is classified into the genus Orcynopsis, which is a monotypictaxon, having only this single species in its membership. It grows to four...
a monotypictaxon. In 2007, based on observations made on the occipital bones and canines, Eva V. I. Gebauer moved Inostrancevia as a sister taxon to...
superfamily Parastacoidea, the monotypictaxon which contains all crayfish in the Southern Hemisphere. Parastacoidea is the sister taxon to Astacoidea, which contains...
Australia. It consists of the sole species Morna florens, making it a monotypictaxon. According to the original description (under the synonym Cuspicona...
in the tropics year round. The genus Daptrius is often considered a monotypictaxon today, while some sources also include its close relative, the red-throated...
Colubridae of the superfamily Colubroidea. The genus Oreocalamus is a monotypictaxon that contains the sole species Oreocalamus hanitschi. O. hanitschi...
in the family Tephritidae. Occurring in eastern Australia, it is a monotypictaxon with the single species Clusiosomina puncticeps. In adults of C. puncticeps...
described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881. The genus was regarded as a monotypictaxon for a long time, however a second species was newly described in 2019...
Pristella is a genus of fish in the family Characidae. It was formerly a monotypictaxon only containing Pristella maxillaris, but in 2019 a second species...
Cephaloascaceae are a family of yeasts in the order Saccharomycetales. A monotypictaxon, it contains the single genus Cephaloascus. Species in the family are...
with an uncertain taxonomic placement in the class Dothideomycetes. A monotypictaxon, it contains the single genus Moriola. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December...
filamentous and flexible nucleocapsid with helical symmetry. It is a monotypictaxon containing only one genus, Ophiovirus. Aspiviridae is also the only...
family of fungi in the Ascomycota, class Leotiomycetes. This is a monotypictaxon, containing the single genus Ascocorticium. The family was first described...
impression that the plant has died; but it revives in spring. The monotypictaxon Microbiota was discovered in 1923, but political secrecy in the former...
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