autapotypic
English
Etymology
aut- + apotypic
Adjective
autapotypic (not comparable)
- Apotypic with regards to its own taxonomic category.
- 1969, Ginter Ekis, Herbert Friedmann, James F. McKinney, Synonymy of the Fish Families Cheilobranchidae, page 129:
- The monophyly of the limbatus group is based on the presence of autapotypic female coxital plates; the plates are only feebly developed in the more primitive Central American species.
- 1981, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology - Issues 340-349, page 13:
- The presence of three in this lineage is interpreted to be autapotypic.
- 1987, Transactions of the American Entomological Society:
- Absence in Neohaemonia is judged an autapotypic loss.
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