How To Use Monotypic In A Sentence
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These genera can be considered monotypic, although Ceratodrilus does have two described species which would be considered subspecies if that rank were being used.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sprinkleocystis ektopios is monotypic therefore generic and species diagnoses are redundant.
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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.
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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
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Gao and Fox indicate that they have identified characters that would separate the three species into three monotypic genera but do not discuss them.
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Genera that contain only one species are termed monotypic category page for this topic but their lists are limited, since Wikipedia is not a comprehensive taxonomy resource.
What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate
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The Albertine Rift is home to about 19 percent of Africa's amphibian species, including more than 30 endemic species and three monotypic endemic genera: Parkers tree toad (Laurentophryne parkeri), the Itombwe golden frog (Chrysobatrachus cupreonitens), and African painted frog (Callixalus pictus, VU).
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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This area also has a monotypic endemic genus, Nephrophyllum abyssinicum, which is found on heavily grazed pastures, open ground, and rocky areas on steep slopes between 1,650 and 2,700 meters.
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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Both genera are likely monotypic, though some scholars have argued that Brachycephalus includes two previously synonymized species.
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Most of these endemic mammals are shrews and rodents, including two monotypic endemic genera: the Ruwenzori shrew (Ruwenzorisorex suncoides, VU), and Delanys swamp mouse (Delanymys brooksi).
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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A variety of interesting trees occurs in the hill woodlands of the Upper Marmelos and Middle Tapajós Rivers including the dwarf rubber tree, Hevea camporum, the elegant palm, Euterpe longibracteata, the enormous Huberodendron ingens, and rare monotypic Brachynema ramiflorum.
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
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The Podostemaceae consist of about 270 species assigned to about 47 genera, mostly monotypic or oligospecific, reflecting considerable discontinuous variation of morphological characters.
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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
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This wide-ranging species is unique enough to be monotypic.
Mystery bird: silver-breasted broadbill, Serilophus lunatus
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Strictly speaking, these four species, traditionally placed in their own monotypic Linnaean families, are just some among many living species of turtles and consequently should receive no special nomenclatural attention.
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All five of the monotypic genera qendemic to Northern Melanesia are confined to the Solomons.
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Loss of structure in monotypic litter likely led to reduced and less hospitable physical living space.
