In 1977, Leslie Andrew Garay transferred the species to a new, monotypic genus, Rhamphorhynchus, as Rhamphorhynchus mendoncae.
The Cleftbelly trevally, Atropus atropos, a fish species of which the genus is monotypic.
The genus is monotypic and contains the single species Austrobasidium pehueldeni, found parasitizing the woody plant Hydrangea serratifolia in Chile.
Placed in the monotypic genus Leucopsar, it appears to be most closely related to Sturnia and the Brahminy Starling which is currently placed in Sturnus but will probably soon be split therefrom as Sturnus as presently delimited is highly paraphyletic.
It is considered to be monotypic although Walter Koelz suggested a new subspecies ruinarum in 1939 based on a specimen from Bhopal.
Neocallitropsis (formerly Callitropsis Compton 1922), a monotypic genus endemic to New Caledonia
Cascoplecia, commonly known as the unicorn fly, is a monotypic genus of extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous.
Now the Papyrus Yellow Warbler is placed in its monotypic genus Calamonastides, with the others placed in the genus Iduna.
Reported as new to science in 2005, the genus is monotypic, containing the single species Diaphanopellis forrestii, found growing on Rhododendron selense subsp.
Dinopanorpa is an extinct monotypic genus of scorpionfly that contains the single species Dinopanorpa megarche and is the type genus of the extinct family Dinopanorpidae.
Glehnia, a monotypic genus in the carrot family Apiaceae named after Peter von Glehn
In Victoria, Ferdinand von Mueller named the monotypic genus Howittia, an Australian blue-flowered mallow he had found in 1855 after Godfrey, "in acknowledgement of his devotion to botany".
Alternatively (Austin 1996, Austin et al. 2004), it could be a monotypic subgenus (Ardenna sensu stricto), an Atlantic representative of the light-billed Hemipuffinus group (Pink-footed shearwater and Flesh-footed Shearwater).
::This article is about a genus of fish, for the monotypic plant genus see Hacquetia epipactis.
Ironically, Iniopteryx rushlaui, the type species, has not yet been assigned to a specific family, though some experts place it in its own monotypic family, "Iniopterygidae." The closest modern-day relatives of the Iniopterygii are the Chimaeras (Chimaeriformes) also known as ghost sharks, rabbit fish or rat fish.
Lasia was believed to be a monotypic genus until 1997 when a wild population of Lasia concinna was discovered in a farmer's paddy field in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Webb and Berthelot included this plant in the separate, monotypic genus Navaea, named for Alonso de Nava y Grimón, (1757-1832), founder of the botanical garden in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Jardín de Aclimatación de la Orotava).
Dictyosperma - A monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family
This is a monotypic genus that only contains the species Melittosesia flavitarsa Bartsch, 2009 that was found in eastern Madagascar near Moramanga and Andasibe in mountainous primary forests.
This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Merugia palicoureae, found on the living petioles of Palicourea plants in Guyana.
Nanoraphidia is an extinct monotypic genus of snakefly in the family Mesoraphidiidae containing the single species Nanoraphidia electroburmica.
Recent cladistic analysis of mtDNA cytochrome b, cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2, as well as nuclear β-fibrinogen intron 7 sequence data, combined with a distinct morphology and behaviour, suggest that the genus is valid but not monotypic.
The genus is monotypic, containing the single fossil species Palaeocybe striata, which was found in Tertiary amber in Saxony, Germany.
It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Phlebonema chrysotingens, described by Roger Heim in 1929 from Madagascar.
Pityopus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the heath family containing the single species Pityopus californica, which is known by the common name pinefoot.
The taxon Protoceratopsidae was introduced by Walter W. Granger and William King Gregory in May 1923 as a monotypic family for Protoceratops andrewsi.
For the bird sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Pyrope, see Fire-eyed Diucon.
Swallow-tailed Hummingbird, Campylopterus macrourus (by most authorities placed in the monotypic genus Eupetomena).
Sarcodes is a monotypic genus of a single springtime flowering plant in the heath family containing the single species Sarcodes sanguinea, commonly called the snow plant or snow flower.
The genus (and a monotypic family, "Taemasosteidae") was originally erected on the basis of "an imperfect" paranuchal, though, more specimens were found, eventually leading "Taemasosteidae" to be subsumed into Buchanosteidae.
Thorold's deer has traditionally been included in the genus Cervus, and genetic evidence suggests this is more appropriate than its present placement in the monotypic genus Przewalskium.
The thrush is thought to have evolved from an ancestor in the genus Turdus from South America, and resembles an immature Austral Thrush, but its adaptations to life on a small island group, including an unusual brush-tipped tongue modified for extracting the contents of eggs, have been used as reasons to warrant its separation into the monotypic genus Nesocichla.
The genus Scepomycter has traditionally been considered monotypic, but in 2009 a closely related new species was described, the Rubeho Warbler.