autapotypic

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adjective

Apotypic with regards to its own taxonomic category.

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Meanings

adjectiveautapotypic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableApotypic with regards to its own taxonomic category.

    Absence in Neohaemonia is judged an autapotypic loss.

    1987, Transactions of the American Entomological Society
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    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.

    1969, Ginter Ekis, Herbert Friedmann, James F. McKinney, Synonymy of the Fish Families Cheilobranchidae, page 129

    The presence of three in this lineage is interpreted to be autapotypic.

    1981, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology - Issues 340-349, page 13

Origin

From aut- + apotypic.

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