holophyletic
adjEtymology From holo- + phyletic.
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Biology, Natural sciences Forming a clade; monophyletic.
- The bees have long appeared to constitute a holophyletic unit.2000, Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 55:
- Cladistics aims to identify holophyletic groups (clades) comprising all the descendants of a common ancestor.2008, Brian McGowran, Kenneth George Denbigh, Biostratigraphy: Microfossils and Geological Time, →ISBN, page 119:
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- McCafferty and Edmunds (1979) divided all mayflies into Pannota and Schistonota, regarding Pannota to be holophyletic, and Schistonota to be paraphyletic.2013, Nikita Kluge, The Phylogenetic System of Ephemeroptera, →ISBN, page 1:
- Related terms
- paraphyletic, polyphyletic