Look up taxa, taxon, taxonomy, or taxonomic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Taxa or Taxon may refer to: Taxa as the plural of taxon, a concept in biological...
937 bytes (146 words) - 20:55, 4 April 2023
Taxa is a Danish television drama in 56 episodes, written by Stig Thorsboe and produced by Rumle Hammerich for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. The...
3 KB (200 words) - 06:59, 23 July 2024
Wastebasket taxon (redirect from Wastebin taxa)
or more other taxa. Wastebasket taxa are by definition either paraphyletic or polyphyletic, and are therefore not considered valid taxa under strict cladistic...
10 KB (1,205 words) - 11:57, 24 August 2024
Taxonomy (biology) (redirect from Biological taxa)
biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of...
69 KB (6,803 words) - 19:07, 4 September 2024
Neontology (redirect from Extant taxa)
generally, recent) organisms. It is the study of extant taxa (singular: extant taxon): taxa (such as species, genera and families) with members still...
8 KB (999 words) - 17:07, 6 May 2024
2018 in arthropod paleontology (section New taxa)
portal This list of fossil arthropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and other fossil arthropods...
176 KB (9,264 words) - 07:45, 20 August 2024
In the history of the Linnaean classification system, many taxa (e.g. species, genera, families, and higher taxonomic ranks) have become defunct or obsolete...
5 KB (185 words) - 18:16, 9 February 2024
Elvis taxon (redirect from Elvis Taxa)
In paleontology, an Elvis taxon (plural Elvis taxa) is a taxon that has been misidentified as having re-emerged in the fossil record after a period of...
5 KB (537 words) - 13:34, 6 June 2023
Lazarus taxon (redirect from Lazarus Taxa)
In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon (plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears for one or more periods from the fossil record, only to appear again later. Likewise...
51 KB (5,859 words) - 18:11, 4 September 2024
Sister group (redirect from Sister taxa)
illustrated by a cladogram: Taxon A and taxon B are sister groups to each other. Taxa A and B, together with any other extant or extinct descendants of their most...
6 KB (490 words) - 22:07, 29 March 2024
category and assigned the code "LR/lc" or lc. Around 20% of least concern taxa (3261 of 15,636) in the IUCN database still use the code "LR/lc", which indicates...
3 KB (346 words) - 17:52, 5 August 2024
This is an index of lists of virus taxa. List of higher virus taxa, i.e. all taxa above the rank of family List of virus families and subfamilies List...
449 bytes (49 words) - 18:14, 25 October 2023
for different species. In it there are 8 taxa of amphibians, 21 taxa of reptiles, 128 taxa of birds, and 74 taxa of mammals, in total 231. There are also...
14 KB (1,625 words) - 16:13, 23 April 2024
upper-level taxa. See also Comparison of computer viruses This is an alphabetical list of biological virus higher taxa. It includes those taxa above family...
5 KB (283 words) - 13:16, 14 January 2024
used for locomotion. The appendages of most crustaceans and some extinct taxa such as trilobites have another segmented branch known as exopods, but whether...
130 KB (12,444 words) - 02:54, 29 August 2024
Dark taxon (redirect from Dark taxa)
Dark taxa are chiefly detected by DNA sequencing, and in particular environmental metabarcoding. Dark taxa make up a paraphyletic group, with dark taxa appearing...
4 KB (425 words) - 06:16, 2 November 2023
than once, independently. They may also arise when existing taxa are changed, as when two taxa are joined to become one, a species is moved to a different...
20 KB (2,786 words) - 22:07, 22 August 2024
Genus (category Taxa named by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort)
the judgement of taxonomists in either combining taxa described under multiple names, or splitting taxa which may bring available names previously treated...
27 KB (3,079 words) - 11:08, 24 April 2024
Taxa Innocentiana was a decree of Pope Innocent XI of 1 October 1678 that regulated the fees that episcopal chancery offices might demand or accept for...
3 KB (404 words) - 09:46, 6 February 2024
Chordate (category Taxa named by Ernst Haeckel)
physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa. These five synapomorphies are a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, an...
55 KB (5,168 words) - 13:54, 31 August 2024
"Eugen Teodorovici spune că va reveni ca președinte sau premier și propune o taxă de pe vremea lui Ceaușescu în locul TVA". HotNews (in Romanian). 22 February...
3 KB (111 words) - 19:58, 1 September 2024
improve its documentation and data quality, and to include peer reviews of taxa on the Red List. The list is also open to petitions against its classifications...
28 KB (2,543 words) - 16:51, 21 August 2024
Gastropoda (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
taxonomy attempt to represent the precise interrelatedness of the various taxa. However, the taxonomy of the Gastropoda is constantly being revised and...
48 KB (5,037 words) - 02:51, 6 September 2024
independence is only partial since the names of families and other higher taxa are usually based on genera.[citation needed] Taxonomy includes both nomenclature...
57 KB (6,662 words) - 00:05, 21 August 2024
Monophyly (redirect from Monophyletic taxa)
condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria: the grouping contains its own most recent common...
11 KB (1,053 words) - 18:34, 14 May 2024
Lepidoptera (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
other taxa, making Ditrysia. More recently, findings of new taxa, larvae and pupa have aided in detailing the relationships of primitive taxa, phylogenetic...
148 KB (16,767 words) - 01:56, 3 September 2024
character states to be described as cladistic species. Species and higher taxa were seen from the time of Aristotle until the 18th century as categories...
103 KB (10,508 words) - 15:47, 6 September 2024
Transitional fossil (redirect from Transitional Taxa)
Such early representatives of a group are usually termed "basal taxa" or "sister taxa," depending on whether the fossil organism belongs to the daughter...
53 KB (5,701 words) - 23:36, 13 August 2024
Paraphyly (redirect from Paraphyletic taxa)
cladistics, having been coined by zoologist Willi Hennig to apply to well-known taxa like Reptilia (reptiles), which is paraphyletic with respect to birds. Reptilia...
39 KB (3,836 words) - 05:06, 22 July 2024