Concept information
Preferred term
monothetic diagnosis
Definition(s)
- A diagnosis involving a unique combination of character states that are both necessary and sufficient for membership in the taxon. (Sneath 1962, Van Regenmortel 2016, Dubois 2017b. )
Broader concept(s)
Scope note(s)
- Code: No term
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
- Dubois, A. (2017) Diagnoses in zoological taxonomy and nomenclature. Bionomina, 12: 63–85. [ https://doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.12.1.8 ]
- Sneath, P. H. A. (1962) The construction of taxonomic groups. In: Microbial classification, Symposia of the Society for general Microbiology, Cambridge University Press, 12: 289–332.
- Van Regenmortel, M. H. V. (2016) Classes, taxa and categories in hierarchical virus classification: a review of current debates on definitions and names of virus species. Bionomina, 10: 1–21. [ https://doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.10.1.1 ]
Identifier
- 1643
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-NRV9F14J-K
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