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- noun Plural form of
taxon .
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In Linnean classification the entire taxa is a nested hierarchy.
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The adjacent map, showing the distribution of the different babirusa taxa, is from Meijaard & Groves (2002b).
The many babirusa species: laissez-faire lumping under fire again Darren Naish 2006
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No, the number of recognised taxa is not going down because of increasing rates of synonymy, it is going up as specialists, working across various tetrapod groups, are resurrecting taxa from synonymy, or are discovering cryptic diversity and thereby coining new species and genera.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The adjacent map, showing the distribution of the different babirusa taxa, is from Meijaard & Groves (2002b).
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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With the exception of the controversial Jurassic form Janenschia (and probably a few basal taxa from the Cretaceous), titanosaurs were all devoid of thumb claws.
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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So the presence of beaks in unfeathered taxa is not a problem.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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The number and variety of white-headed gull taxa is baffling and sorting out any kind of historical pattern is highly, highly difficult.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Whether taxa are awarded subspecific or specific rank is of course subjective, but not only is it misleading to include all of these taxa within a single species, there is also the practical problem that species are always regarded as more deserving of conservation effort than subspecies.
The many babirusa species: laissez-faire lumping under fire again Darren Naish 2006
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Whether taxa are awarded subspecific or specific rank is of course subjective, but not only is it misleading to include all of these taxa within a single species, there is also the practical problem that species are always regarded as more deserving of conservation effort than subspecies.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The issue isnt the word taxa but the word higher.
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