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autapotypic en · ADJ

Etymology

From aut- + apotypic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Apotypic with regards to its own taxonomic category.
    • Absence in Neohaemonia is judged an autapotypic loss. 1987, Transactions of the American Entomological Society:
    • The presence of three in this lineage is interpreted to be autapotypic. 1981, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology - Issues 340-349, page 13:
    • 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: