species-specific

American  

[spee-sheez-spi-sif-ik, spee-seez-] / ˈspi ʃiz spɪˈsɪf ɪk, ˈspi siz- /

adjective

Ecology.

1. associated with or limited to one species only.

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Example Sentences

"Before, you'd think about a holotype as just the physical object -- the animal itself. Now we have the 'extended specimen.' All the data and parts associated with that specimen are part of the specimen. The holotype includes the genomic data if that's available. For example, when you describe frogs, you can use calls. Frogs have species-specific calls. All that belongs to the holotype. It's part of the holotype."

From Science Daily

Fish and Wildlife Service creates a species-specific rule saying otherwise.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Instead, it depends heavily on regional climate, elevation and species-specific biology.”

From Los Angeles Times

Then a few months later, the same journal publishes a paper on a similar topic but on a different, flashier species for which there is already a lot of research, conservation concerns and efforts, and sometimes even dedicated species-specific working groups.

From Salon

A recently published study of bird traits offered Baldwin and his PhD co-advisor Jonathan Myers, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, an opportunity to examine one potentially important and species-specific factor: bird wing shape.

From Science Daily