Concept information
Preferred term
polythetic diagnosis
Definition(s)
- In taxonomy, a diagnosis of taxon involving a variable, but unique to the taxon, combination of alternative character states, none of which is necessarily present in every member of 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
- 1642
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-RJX9J9GT-7
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