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taxognosis > diagnosis > monothetic diagnosis

Preferred term

monothetic diagnosis  

Definition

  • A diagnosis involving a unique combination of character states that are both necessary and sufficient for membership in the taxon. (Sneath 1962, Van Regenmortel 2016, Dubois 2017b. )

Broader concept

Scope note

  • Code: No term

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • Dubois, A. (2017) Diagnoses in zoological taxonomy and nomenclature. Bionomina, 12: 63–85. [ https://doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.12.1.8 ]
  • Sneath, P. H. A. (1962) The construction of taxonomic groups. In: Microbial classification, Symposia of the Society for general Microbiology, Cambridge University Press, 12: 289–332.
  • Van Regenmortel, M. H. V. (2016) Classes, taxa and categories in hierarchical virus classification: a review of current debates on definitions and names of virus species. Bionomina, 10: 1–21. [ https://doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.10.1.1 ]

Identifier

  • 1643

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-NRV9F14J-K

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