How To Use monotypic In A Sentence
- 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
- Loss of structure in monotypic litter likely led to reduced and less hospitable physical living space.
- All five of the monotypic genera qendemic to Northern Melanesia are confined to the Solomons.
- 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.
- This wide-ranging species is unique enough to be monotypic. Mystery bird: silver-breasted broadbill, Serilophus lunatus
- 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
- The Podostemaceae consist of about 270 species assigned to about 47 genera, mostly monotypic or oligospecific, reflecting considerable discontinuous variation of morphological characters.
- 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
- 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
- Both genera are likely monotypic, though some scholars have argued that Brachycephalus includes two previously synonymized species.
