holophyletic

English

Etymology

From holo- +‎ phyletic.

Adjective

holophyletic (not comparable)

1. (biology) Forming a clade; monophyletic.
   • 2000, Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 55:

     The bees have long appeared to constitute a holophyletic unit.

   • 2008, Brian McGowran, Kenneth George Denbigh, Biostratigraphy: Microfossils and Geological Time, →ISBN, page 119:

     Cladistics aims to identify holophyletic groups (clades) comprising all the descendants of a common ancestor.

   • 2013, Nikita Kluge, The Phylogenetic System of Ephemeroptera, →ISBN, page 1:

     McCafferty and Edmunds (1979) divided all mayflies into Pannota and Schistonota, regarding Pannota to be holophyletic, and Schistonota to be paraphyletic.

See also

• paraphyletic
• polyphyletic