morphospecies

English

Etymology

From morpho- +‎ species.

Noun

morphospecies (plural morphospecies)

  1. (biology) A species distinguished from others only by its morphology.
    • 2002, Andrew S. Pullin, Conservation Biology, page 160:
      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.
  • morphospecific
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