[Taxacom] 2nd attempt to post something

[Fred Schueler]

On 12/4/2017 11:59 AM, Robert Louis Zuparko wrote:

> It may well be there is no such term, and the phrase "species known from
> only one sex" might be the best thing I can do.

* surely someone more adept at classical languages than I am could work 
up something along the lines of unisexignostic?

fred.
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> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Prathapan Divakaran <prathapankd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Male unknown/female unknown
>> On 04-Dec-2017 5:34 am, "Robert Louis Zuparko" <rz at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Last week I attempted to post the following, but for some reason it never
>>> went through. I'd like to try again:
>>>
>>> Is there a term or short phrase to describe the taxonomic situation where
>>> a
>>> species (that presumably has both females and males) is known only from a
>>> single sex? The best I can come up with is: "a species known only from a
>>> single sex", which, at 8 words, seems too long and cumbersome. Is there
>>> anything shorter available?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Robert Zuparko
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