In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy; pl.: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to...
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In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does...
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Wastebasket taxon (also called a wastebin taxon, dustbin taxon or catch-all taxon) is a term used by some taxonomists to refer to a taxon that has the...
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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...
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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...
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In taxonomy, an undescribed taxon is a taxon (for example, a species) that has been discovered, but not yet formally described and named. The various Nomenclature...
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Sister group (redirect from Sister taxon)
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary...
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Incertae sedis (redirect from Enigmatic taxon)
analysis is conducted that does not include a certain taxon, the authors might choose to label the taxon incertae sedis instead of guessing its placement....
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Taxonomy (biology) (redirect from Taxon authority)
based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of a given rank can...
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In paleontology, a zombie taxon (plural zombie taxa) or the zombie effect refers to a fossil that was washed out of sediments and re-deposited in rocks...
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Taxon is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering plant taxonomy. It is published by Wiley on behalf of the International Association for...
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Taxon identifiers Pici Wikidata: Q16542266 Fauna Europaea: 10838 Fauna Europaea (new): ab60f6a5-2974-420e-9763-a9e7ff268889 iNaturalist: 17550 ITIS: 178147...
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Species description (redirect from Taxon description)
Botanical Latin Glossary of scientific naming Taxonomic treatment Undescribed taxon Category:Species described in the 21st century, with subcategories; contains...
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Neontology (redirect from Extant taxon)
generally, recent) organisms. It is the study of extant taxa (singular: extant taxon): taxa (such as species, genera and families) with members still alive,...
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Phylogenetic nomenclature (redirect from Stem-based taxon)
phylogenetic definitions for taxon names as explained below. This contrasts with the traditional method, by which taxon names are defined by a type, which...
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Synonym (taxonomy) (redirect from Taxon synonym)
botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was...
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Extinction (redirect from Extinct taxon)
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...
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subdiscipline of geology, a taxon-range zone is the zone between the highest and the lowest stratigraphic occurrence of a taxon. Taxon-range zones are one of...
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A Lazarus Taxon is a box set by Chicago post-rock group Tortoise, released in 2006 on Thrill Jockey. The set contains three CDs, one DVD and an accompanying...
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to be descriptively useful: monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should clearly demonstrate...
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In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from...
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Species inquirenda (redirect from Taxon inquirendum)
early nineteenth century. The term taxon inquirendum is broader in meaning and refers to an incompletely defined taxon of which the taxonomic validity is...
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In mycology, a dark taxon (pl.: dark taxa; or dark fungus) is a taxon that does not appear to produce any observable morphological structure and that...
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Pioneer organism (redirect from Disaster taxon)
A pioneer organism, also called a disaster taxon, is an organism that colonizes a previously empty area first, or one that repopulates vacant niches after...
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features of that particular taxon. In older usage (pre-1900 in botany), a type was a taxon rather than a specimen. A taxon is a scientifically named grouping...
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Taxonomic rank (redirect from Taxon rank)
biology, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system of biological...
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Canis lupus dingo (redirect from Canis lupus dingo (taxon))
free to propose which group of animals with similar characteristics that a taxon might belong to. In 1978, a review to reduce the number species listed under...
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Taxon cycles refer to a biogeographical theory of how species evolve through range expansions and contractions over time associated with adaptive shifts...
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Taxon. 52 (1): 101–104. doi:10.2307/3647306. JSTOR 3647306. Govaerts, R. (2003). "How many species of seed plants are there? – a response". Taxon. 52...
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with respect to butterflies (suborder Rhopalocera) and neither subordinate taxon is used in modern classifications. Moths make up the vast majority of the...
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