morphotype

plural morphotypes

1. biologyAny of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph.

   The morphotype, or form-print, must hereafter take its place by the side of the logotype or word-print.

   1859 June 28, “The stereoscope and the stereograph”, in Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics, page 744

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   As the first form of a dimorphic sex will be represented in the holotype or allotype, there may be some doubt as to the advisability of classing morphotypes among primary types.

   1911, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 4, page 208

   The only exception seems to be morphotype 2 (Scotiophryne), which is clearly defined by a prominent lamina that posteriorly delimits the oblique groove and, in the Utah samples, is stratigraphically restricted to the lower—middle Campanian.

   2013, Alan L. Titus, At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah

present singular third person morphotypes · participle present morphotyping · participle past morphotyped · past morphotyped

1. To sort into such types (and identify them)

   Experiment 4 involved only morphotyping, and the results demonstrated the concentration-dependence of the subdivisions of morphotype 1.

   1977 July 28, ME Kabay, JJ Gilbert, “Polymorphism and reproductive mode in the rotifer, Asplanchna sieboldi: Relationship between meiotic oogenesis and shape of body‐wall outgrowths”, in Journal of Experimental Zoology

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   In a second phase, arriving seeds were left to accumulate in traps for eight months, at which time all seeds, fruits, and germinated seedlings in the traps were collected and "morphotyped" (separated into unidentified but recognizable species).

   2001, Richard O. Bierregaard, editor, Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest, page 316

   Galls when found were inspected for inducers, collected separately in plastic bags when an insect or mite was found and were provisionally morphotyped (for organ, shape, colour and host plant).

   2014, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Neotropical Insect Galls, page 227