autapotypic

English

Etymology

aut- +‎ apotypic

Adjective

autapotypic (not comparable)

  1. 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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