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Meaning of "paraphyletic"
Paraphyletic describes a group of organisms that includes some but not all descendants from a common ancestor. It is a term used in biology and taxonomy
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- Of a defined group of taxa, not including all descendants of the most recent common ancestor of all members.
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Captorhinida is a doubly paraphyletic grouping of early reptiles.
Pteridophyta is no longer recognised as a valid taxon because it is paraphyletic.
Pelycosauria is a paraphyletic taxon because it excludes the therapsids.
The remaining monocots are a paraphyletic unit.
Phytophthora is shown to be paraphyletic with respect to the obligatory biotrophic genera.
Basal eudicot is an informal name for a paraphyletic group.
It admits paraphyletic groups.
This grouping is now recognized to be paraphyletic.
The miacids are a paraphyletic group containing all miacoids that are not viverravids.
The tribe has been shown to be paraphyletic.
This group is now known to be paraphyletic and has no standing in systematics anymore.
A parahaplogroup is a term used in genetics to identify a paraphyletic haplogroup.
Such a paraphyletic group would according to modern understanding not warrant a taxon name at all.
The genus is probably polyphyletic or paraphyletic.
They are now classified as a paraphyletic phylum from which the higher animals have evolved.
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Coreopsis is best described as paraphyletic.
Glaucidium forms a paraphyletic group with Surnia.
The family to which the genus belongs may be paraphyletic.
The arrangement of the members of a paraphyletic group is called a paraphyly.
A recent systematic study has shown that this genus is paraphyletic.
Protosuchia has recently been considered a paraphyletic grouping of early crocodyliforms.
Recent genetic data indicate that the species as currently constructed is paraphyletic.
Invertebrates form a paraphyletic group.
Vivipary in a group that includes humans and skinks can not be paraphyletic.
This genus is paraphyletic.
The use of molecular phylogenetics has increasingly revealed this grouping to be paraphyletic.
It is probably paraphyletic.
Pelycosaur a paraphyletic group comprising all Synapsida except therapsids.
The group is probably paraphyletic.
Miacoids were a group of paraphyletic taxa believed to be basal to Carnivora.
Clarias has been found to be paraphyletic.
The Prasinophyceae are a paraphyletic assemblage of early diverging green algal lineages.
Pongidae is now known to be paraphyletic.
Carpinus may also be considered paraphyletic depending on the placement of Ostrya.
The genus is recognized to be paraphyletic.
The genus Alberta was shown to be paraphyletic in a phylogenetic analysis of the tribe Alberteae.
Apusozoa also appears to be paraphyletic.
The Choanozoa appear to be a paraphyletic group which gave rise to the animals.
Rhinobatiformes are seen as a monophyletic group by some authors and as paraphyletic by others.
But they are probably paraphyletic among themselves and with respect to the remaining Hemitheini.
It is now regarded as a paraphyletic group.
Treating it as such though resulted in the remainder of the genus Rhododendron being paraphyletic.
Varisulca appear to be paraphyletic stem Podiata.
Preliminary molecular studies have shown that the family is probably paraphyletic.
Molecular data show that Coelogyne is paraphyletic and should be reorganised.
The traditional taxon of Anapsida is rejected as paraphyletic.
Paradoxornis is apparently paraphyletic with Conostoma.
As traditionally defined the Perciformes are almost certainly paraphyletic.
Lithornis itself may be paraphyletic in relation to Paracathartes and Pseudocrypturus.
The shelled coleoids do not form a clade or even a paraphyletic group.
