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holophyletic en · ADJ

Etymology

From holo- + phyletic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Forming a clade; monophyletic.
    • McCafferty and Edmunds (1979) divided all mayflies into Pannota and Schistonota, regarding Pannota to be holophyletic, and Schistonota to be paraphyletic. 2013, Nikita Kluge, The Phylogenetic System of Ephemeroptera, →ISBN, page 1:
    • Cladistics aims to identify holophyletic groups (clades) comprising all the descendants of a common ancestor. 2008, Brian McGowran, Kenneth George Denbigh, Biostratigraphy: Microfossils and Geological Time, →ISBN, page 119:
    • The bees have long appeared to constitute a holophyletic unit. 2000, Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 55:

Relateds

polyphyletic · paraphyletic