Morphospecies

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A species distinguished from others only by its morphology.

    "Their approach is to sort specimens based on their major morphological characteristics, rather than their strict taxonomy. They named this type of pseudotaxonomy the morphospecies approach."

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"Their approach is to sort specimens based on their major morphological characteristics, rather than their strict taxonomy. They named this type of pseudotaxonomy the morphospecies approach."

Etymology

From morpho- + species.

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