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Preferred term

monophory  

Definition

  • Qualification of a nomen supported by an onomatophore composed of a single specimen (in the species-series) or taxomen (in the three other nominal-series). The designation of this onomatophore may have been original or subsequent. (Dubois 2005b) ; Monotype: (1) The holotype of a taxon based on a single known specimen (2) the type of a monotypic genus. (Hawsksworth 2010)

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Entry terms

  • monotype
  • monotypy

Note

  • Etymology: G: μόνος (monos), single, unique - φέρω (phero), I bear

Scope note

  • Code: Monotypy: The situation arising: when an author establishes a nominal genus or subgenus for what he or she considers to be a single taxonomic species and denotes that species by an available name (the nominal species so named is the type species by monotypy); or when an author bases a nominal species-group taxon on a single specimen but does not explicitly designate it as holotype (holotype by monotypy).

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • Dubois, A. (2005) Proposed Rules for the incorporation of nomina of higher-ranked zoological taxa in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 1. Some general questions, concepts and terms of biological nomenclature. Zoosystema, 27 (2): 365–426. Hawksworth, D. L. (2010) Terms used in bionomenclature: the naming of organisms (and plant communities). Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Copenhagen. 1–216. [ https://www.gbif.org/document/80577/terms-used-in-bionomenclature-the-naming-of-organisms-and-plant-communities ]

Identifier

  • 211

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-QZXZ2VHP-Z

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