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Preferred term

diagnogenus  

Definition

  • Genus concept relying on two Criteria: [1] genera should be groups of species considered to be strictly holophyletic; [2] they should be diagnosable through characters accessible to the external examination of specimens, i.e. mostly morphological and ecological, but excluding internal anatomical characters, cytogenetic or molecular data. (Dubois et al. 2021)

Note

  • Etymology: G: διάγνωσις (diagnosis), distinction, discrimination - γένος (genis), race, genus.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • Dubois, A., Ohler, A. & Pyron, R. A. (2021) New concepts and methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians (Lissamphibia). Megataxa, 5, 1‒738. [ https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.5.1.1 ]

Identifier

  • 3022

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-T04P2W1X-G

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