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- DictionaryTax·on/ˈtakˌsän/
noun
- 1. a taxonomic group of any rank, such as a species, family, or class.
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4 days ago · Definition. Biologists and taxonomists have made many attempts to define species, beginning from morphology and moving towards genetics. Early taxonomists such as Linnaeus had no option but to describe what they saw: this was later formalised as the typological or morphological species concept.
5 days ago · Definitions of taxonomic group. noun. animal or plant group having natural relations. synonyms: taxon, taxonomic category. see more.
3 days ago · Definition: Taxonomy. Taxonomy is the study of classifying and naming organisms. In 1969, a scientist called Robert Whittaker proposed the 5-Kingdom classification system, outlined in Figure 1. Figure 1: A diagram demonstrating the 5-kingdom classification system. An example of a kingdom that organisms may be classified into is kingdom Protista.
2 days ago · Primate Taxonomy listed about 350 species of primates in 2001; the author, Colin Groves, increased that number to 376 for his contribution to the third edition of Mammal Species of the World (MSW3). However, publications since the taxonomy in MSW3 was compiled in 2003 have pushed the number to 522 species, or 708 including subspecies.
1 day ago · e. Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to reproduce and recover. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively.
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1 day ago · Rank of taxon, e.g. species; Parent: immediately higher taxon, e.g. genus, to which the present taxon belongs; Synonymized taxa: the list of homotypic and, more rarely, heterotypic synonyms linked to the present name; Sources: literature reference of the original description and if applicable to a recent revision (as the ‘basis of the record’).
5 days ago · Organism. The taxonomy database provides more than two million species information retrieval. Original data source of taxonomy database includes the NCBI Taxonomy. The main available information includes the scientific name of species or related nomenclature, lineage information, and other sub resources associated with the species.
