parapatricadj.
/ˌparəˈpatrɪk/, /ˌparəˈpeɪtrɪk/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈpætrɪk/, /ˌpɛrəˈpeɪtrɪk/ Biology.
Of related animal or plant populations or species: occurring in distinct but contiguous areas, i.e. without full geographic separation. Also: relating to or occupied by such populations or species. Cf. allopatric adj., sympatric adj.
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high?1548
recapitulative1836
retrogressive1853
transmutational1861
ontogenetic1869
convergent1871
phylogenetic1876
correlative1877
ontogenic1878
phylogenetical1879
phytogenetic1882
monotypic1888
phytogenetical1888
polytypic1888
ontogenal1890
phylogenal1890
recapitulatory1890
tachygenetic1893
ontogenetical1894
anagenetic1896
orthogenic1896
orthogenetic1899
macroevolutionary1937
microevolutionary1937
proterogenetic1938
speciational1944
parapatric1953
cladogenetic1957
allochronic1960
stasigenetic1965
stasipatric1967
speciating1970
punctuational1976
tachygenic-
1953 Systematic Zool. 2 45/1 Here we have two kinds of animals that are unlike, and genetically separated (not interbreeding). These are sympatric or even may be parapatric.
1972 J. Murray Genetic Diversity & Nat. Select. vi. 87 It is..convenient to distinguish by the term parapatric speciation the special case considered here in which the incipient species are contiguous populations in a continuous cline.
1983 E. C. Minkoff Evolutionary Biol. xiii. 234/1 The frogs placed by Moore in the species Rana pipiens belong in reality to two closely similar species (sibling species) with closely adjacent (parapatric) ranges.
1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 5067/1 Adults and juveniles are parapatric and do not interact strongly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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