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unusual facts about monotypic genus



Capsaspora

Capsaspora is a monotypic genus containg the single species Capsaspora owczarzaki, a single-celled eukaryote which is a symbiont in the haemolymph of the tropical freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata.

Eomecon

Eomecon is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the poppy family containing the single species Eomecon chionantha.

Hanabusaya

Hanabusaya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Campanulaceae, the bellflowers, containing the single species Hanabusaya asiatica.

Hugueninia tanacetifolia

Hugueninia tanacetifolia, the Tansy-leaved rocket, is a species of flowering plant in the monotypic genus Hugueninia belonging to the mustard family.


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Aspidogyne mendoncae

In 1977, Leslie Andrew Garay transferred the species to a new, monotypic genus, Rhamphorhynchus, as Rhamphorhynchus mendoncae.

Bali Myna

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.

Callitropsis

Neocallitropsis (formerly Callitropsis Compton 1922), a monotypic genus endemic to New Caledonia

Cascoplecia

Cascoplecia, commonly known as the unicorn fly, is a monotypic genus of extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous.

Chloropeta

Now the Papyrus Yellow Warbler is placed in its monotypic genus Calamonastides, with the others placed in the genus Iduna.

Dinopanorpa

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.

Glehn

Glehnia, a monotypic genus in the carrot family Apiaceae named after Peter von Glehn

Godfrey Howitt

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".

Lasia

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.

Lavatera phoenicea

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).

Linoma

Dictyosperma - A monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family

Melittosesia

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.

Merugia

This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Merugia palicoureae, found on the living petioles of Palicourea plants in Guyana.

Nanoraphidia

Nanoraphidia is an extinct monotypic genus of snakefly in the family Mesoraphidiidae containing the single species Nanoraphidia electroburmica.

Phlebonema

It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Phlebonema chrysotingens, described by Roger Heim in 1929 from Madagascar.

Pityopus

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.

Pyrope

For the bird sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Pyrope, see Fire-eyed Diucon.

Sabrewing

Swallow-tailed Hummingbird, Campylopterus macrourus (by most authorities placed in the monotypic genus Eupetomena).

Sarcodes

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.

Thorold's deer

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.

Tristan Thrush

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.