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ochlospecies

ochlospecies noun: a taxonomic species concept characterized by large amounts of variation that is not correlated with geography or ecology; usually geographically widespread and having variants that may be consistently distinguishable locally but not globally.

Noun

ochlospecies (plural ochlospecies)

  1. A taxonomic species concept characterized by large amounts of variation that is not correlated with geography or ecology; usually geographically widespread and having variants that may be consistently distinguishable locally but not globally.
    • Ochlospecies are usually geographically and ecologically widespread, occurring in several climatic and vegetation zones ('ecological and chorological transgressors' of White ).1998, Camilla R. Huxley, Chorology, Taxonomy and Ecology of the Floras of Africa and Madagascar
    • The existence of “swarms” of related species or subspecies with near-complete combinations of morphological traits (“ochlospecies”; White 1962, Cronk 1999) may indicate that the terminal phylogenetic structure of some tropical tree lineages may actually be highly reticulate.2011, Walter Carson, Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Forms of ochlospecies

pluralochlospecies

Questions about ochlospecies

What does ochlospecies mean?
Ochlospecies means a taxonomic species concept characterized by large amounts of variation that is not correlated with geography or ecology; usually geographically widespread and having variants that may be consistently distinguishable locally but not globally.
What part of speech is ochlospecies?
Ochlospecies is a noun.
What is the plural of ochlospecies?
The plural of ochlospecies is ochlospecies.

Words near ochlospecies in the dictionary

  1. ochlophobias
  2. ochlophobic
  3. ochlophobics
  4. ochlophobist
  5. ochlophobists
  6. ochlospecies
  7. ochna
  8. ochnaceous
  9. ochnaflavone
  10. ochnas
  11. Ochoa

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