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taxognosis > cladognosis > apognosis

Preferred term

apognosis  

Definition

  • A cladognosis of a taxon based on “character states” or signifiers (Ashlock 1985) that are consideredto be shared by all members of the taxon and absent in all non-members, and that are considered, onthe basis of a cladistic analysis and hypothesis, to be autapomorphic for the taxon. (Dubois 1997)

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • apomorphy-based definition

Note

  • Etymology: G: ἀπό (apo), from, away from - γνῶσις (gnosis), knowledge, understanding.

Scope note

  • Code: No term

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • Ashlock, P. D. (1985) A revision of the Bergidea group: a problem in classification and biogeography (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Journal of the Kansas entomological Society, ‘1984’, 57 (4): 675–688 [ https://www.jstor.org/stable/25084577 ]
  • Dubois, A. (1997) An evolutionary biologist’s view on the science of biology. Alytes, 15 (3): 133–136.

Identifier

  • 1630

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