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taxon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | taxonomic category, taxonomic group |
| Type of | biological group |
| Has types | adapid group, amentiferae, centrospermae, class, family, form, genus, group amentiferae, group centrospermae, group pteridospermae, group pteridospermaphyta, kingdom, monotype, omomyid, omomyid group, order, phycomycetes, phycomycetes group, phylum, pteridospermae, pteridospermaphyta, race, species, strain, subclass, subfamily, subgenus, subkingdom, suborder, subphylum, subspecies, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superphylum, tribe, type, var., variant, adapid, variety |
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Setting the circumscription of a taxon is done by a taxonomist in a publication.
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Important in determining the priority of names available for a particular taxon.
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It does not consider the inferred characters of ancestors and the taxon itself.
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Unlike their sister taxon, the jacamars, all puffbirds lack iridescent plumage.
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C. australis is a highly variable taxon, with several subspecies and varieties.
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In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group with only one biological type.
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The other two genera are Urania, its sister taxon, and Alcides, the most basal.
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In this approach, an ancestor is an actual taxon, whether currently known or not.
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Each of the 1,610 terminal branches represents a family or family-level taxon.
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- Taxonomic group: animal or plant group having natural relations
- A taxon (plural: taxa) is a group of (one or more) organisms, which a taxonomist adjudges to be a unit. Usually a taxon is given a name and a rank, although neither is a requirement. Defining what belongs or does not belong to such a taxonomic group is done by a taxonomist. ...
- The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) promotes an understanding of plant biodiversity, facilitates international communication of research between botanists, and oversees matters of uniformity and stability in plant names . ...
- Any of the taxonomic categories such as phylum or subspecies; A specific taxonomic category above superfamily and below infraorder; a parvorder
- (taxa (singular taxon)) A grouping of organisms given a formal taxonomic name such as species, genus, family, etc.
- (Taxa) The plural form of taxon. Pertaining to the classification of organisms into systems of relationship based on genetic and morphological similarities.
- (TAXA (Sing. TAXON)) Latin term for entities at any level, for example Families (Sing. Family), Genera (Sing. Genus) or Species (Sing. Species - one species, five species, there is no such thing like one specie as I frequently hear...)
- (TAXA) (sing. = TAXON) - groupings of organisms made for systematic purposes: range in rank from species to Kingdom.
- (taxa) A group of any size used in the classification of things, particularly plants and animals.
