taxon

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A specific taxonomic category above superfamily and below infraorder; a parvorder
Any of the taxonomic categories such as phylum or subspecies
A named group of organisms within the Linnaen hierarchy of species, genus, family, etc
A taxonomic unit of any rank (order, family, genus, species, subspecies, etc )
1 a group of organisms of any taxonomic rank, e g , family, genus or species
One or more organisms that belong to the same taxonomic unit
a group of organisms in a taxonomic hierarchy that have affinity to one another
A named group of organisms, not necessarily a natural (monophyletic) unit (cf terminal)
a taxonomic group or entity
Enter a name or part of a name of any taxonmic level (from Kingdom to subspecific levels) For example, entering "Achatinidae" will list all records in that family Entering the text "Achatin" will list all records of both Achatinidae and Achatinellidae (and all other taxa with the text "Achatin" somewhere in their entire taxonomic assignment) Currently, this field does not yet support logical operators such as 'not', 'and' and 'or'; entered values are taken as literal strings Spaces are allowed in search criteria, but will be truncated if they are either the first or last character(s) of the search criterion
a group of organisims that are considered distinct enough to be treated as a separate unit As an example, the family Chelidae and all subordinate members of that family would belong to the same taxon or taxonomic group
(pl taxa) A taxonomic unit, such as a species, genus, subgenus, family
animal or plant group having natural relations
{i} categorical classification
A taxonomic unit of any size A category in the taxonomic hierarchy
A taxonomic group of any rank (pl taxa)
(plural taxa) Any unit of classification or organisms (e g phylum, class, order, genus, species)
Any named group of organisms, not necessarily a clade
A classification category for a group of organisms
The named classification unit to which individuals or sets of species are assigned, such as species, genus and order
(Taxa pl ) A group of organisms sharing common characteristics in varying degrees of distinction that constitute one of the categories in taxonomic classification, such as species, genus, subspecies, phylum, etc
Named group of organisms that is defined by a set of shared characters Taxonomy is the science of classification, nomemclature, and identification of organisms
A category or unit, as species, genus, etc
- A class of a formal classification system at any level of generalization or abstraction  
One of the formal categories of organisms used in classification systems The seven major categories are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species
Term applied to any taxonomic group at any taxonomic rank
Any identifiable group of taxonomically related organisms
the named classification unit (e g Panthera tigris, Panthera, Felidae, Carnivora or Mammalia) to which individuals, or sets of species, are assigned Lower taxa are those at subspecies and species level (e g Panthera tigris sumatrae) Higher taxa are those above the species level (at genus, family, order, class, etc level; e g Panthera, Felidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) [JVG]
A group into which related organisms are classified (See 422)
form taxon
A collection of organisms that is given formal recognition at some rank with a taxonomic name, but which is known to be an artificial group rather than a natural one

All fossilized roots of scale trees are assigned to the form taxon 'Stigmaria'.

infraspecific taxon
A taxon at a rank below that of species ("within the species") with a three-part name consisting of the species name and an infraspecific epithet
wastebasket taxon
A taxon that exists only to classify organisms that do not fit anywhere else, being either paraphyletic or polyphyletic and therefore not considered valid under modern rules of taxonomy
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    [ 'tak-"sän ] (noun.) 1929. New Latin, from International Scientific Vocabulary taxonomy.