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nested

In cladistics, used to refer to a clade located within a larger clade.

Used in 34 species profiles

Carnegiella marthae
Carnegiella myersi
Carnegiella strigata
Devario acrostomus
Devario acuticephala
Devario aequipinnatus

Related terms

basal
At, towards or constituting a base; primitive. Opposite of derived. In cladistics, used to in reference to a clade within which other clades are nested.
clade
A group of organisms sharing homologous features, believed to have evolved from a common ancestor following the principles of cladistics; a monophyletic group; a grouping hypothesised on the basis of phylogenetic information.
cladistics
Taxonomical method used to classify species of organisms into clades, each of which contains an ancestor organism and all its descendants, based on synapomorphies (shared derived characters). Cladistic classifications are usually presented in the form of a cladogram.

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