[Taxacom] word for only species in the genus

[igor pavlinov]

Hi John,
 
you better ask Alain Dubois (adubois at mnhn.fr) about this. He likes to coin new terms and just published the draft Linz Zoocode quite rich of them (https://www.biotaxa.org/Bionomina/article/view/bionomina.17.1.1). 
 
Igor
 
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Igor Ya. Pavlinov, DrS
Zoological Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University
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>Понедельник, 8 марта 2021, 6:35 +03:00 от John Grehan via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>:
> 
>Thanks Ken and everyone else. It seems that this is another case of a
>descriptive association that lacks an accepted technical term. No worries
>though. Not a critical problem, but was curious. One word that did come
>back to me by a collegial wit to describe a sole species for a genus was
>'lonely'. I said that was worth five laughs :)
>
>On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 8:39 PM Kenneth Kinman via Taxacom <
>taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu > wrote:
> 
>> Hi Fred,
>> The word "singleton" is sometimes used for an only child. And in
>> mathematics, singleton means "a set consisting of one given element." So
>> the word singleton could perhaps be used for the only species in a genus.
>> However, I believe that a singleton species can also mean a species based
>> on just one specimen.  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/singleton
>> ---------------Ken Kinman
>> [
>>  https://www.dictionary.com/assets/dictionary-social-logo-93d290770ddf5b8c309b6e5ce9dcaac9.png
>> ]< https://www.dictionary.com/browse/singleton >
>> Singleton | Definition of Singleton at Dictionary.com<
>>  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/singleton >
>> Singleton definition, a person or thing occurring singly, especially an
>> individual set apart from others. See more.
>>  www.dictionary.com
>>
>>
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>> > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 9:27 PM John Grehan < calabar.john at gmail.com >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >> Sorry for this rather simple question. I am familiar with monotypic or
>> >> monobasic for a genus with a single species, but is there a term
>> describing
>> >> a species that is the sole member of its genus?
>>
>> * I bet that if "monospecies" had been used for a century it would be
>> acceptable. I also wonder if there are single words for what we call an
>> "only child" in English, which could be borrowed?
>>
>> fred.
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