autapotypic

English

Etymology

aut- +‎ apotypic

Adjective

autapotypic (not comparable)

1. Apotypic with regards to its own taxonomic category.
   • 1969, Ginter Ekis, Herbert Friedmann, James F. McKinney, Synonymy of the Fish Families Cheilobranchidae, page 129:

     The monophyly of the limbatus group is based on the presence of autapotypic female coxital plates; the plates are only feebly developed in the more primitive Central American species.

   • 1981, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology - Issues 340-349, page 13:

     The presence of three in this lineage is interpreted to be autapotypic.

   • 1987, Transactions of the American Entomological Society:

     Absence in Neohaemonia is judged an autapotypic loss.