How To Use monotypic In A Sentence
- These genera can be considered monotypic, although Ceratodrilus does have two described species which would be considered subspecies if that rank were being used.
- More than 30 of the nearly 200 mammals found in the Ethiopian Highlands are found nowhere else, including a remarkable six endemic genera, four of which are monotypic: three rodents (Megadendromus, Muriculus, and Nilopegamys) and one primate, the gelada (Theropithecus gelada). Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
- Over 50 relict monotypic genera have survived from the Mesozoic era, 20% of China's total, among them the dove tree Davidia involucrata, Katsura tree Cercidophyllum japonicum, Chinese money maple Dipteronia sinensis, dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides (CR), Chinese bretschneidera Bretschneidera sinensis (EN), gingko Gingko biloba (EN), Tetracentron sinensis and one-eyed grass Kingdonia uniflora. 50 genera are endemic to China (20% of its total) and 67 plant species are nationally protected. The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, China
- One of your remarks I do not see the bearing of under your point of view -- namely, that in monotypic genera "the variation and variability" are "much more frequently noticed" than in polytypic genera. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
- The beautiful, bright green African green broadbill (Pseudocalyptomena graueri, VU), the sole representative of a monotypic genus, is found in only three sites in the Rift. Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
- Currently the greatest threat to the forests of the Society Islands is that they will all be replaced with monotypic stands of the neotropical melastome Miconia calvescens. Society Islands tropical moist forests
- Sprinkleocystis ektopios is monotypic therefore generic and species diagnoses are redundant.
- Aligned S. glaessneri accumulations resemble the belemnite battlefields described and interpreted by Doyle and Macdonald, which are characterized by nearly monotypic concentrations of aligned belemnite rostra.
- The hotspot is home to three endemic plant families (Aextoxicaceae, Gomortegaceae and Lactoridaceae), and several monotypic endemic plant genera (Pitavia, Legrandia, and Jubaea). Biological diversity in the Chilean winter rainfall-valdivian forests
- Gao and Fox indicate that they have identified characters that would separate the three species into three monotypic genera but do not discuss them.
