Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A taxonomic category or group, such as a phylum, order, family, genus, or species.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a taxonomic group, or the name of a taxonomic grouping.
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- noun taxonomy Any of the
taxonomic categories such asphylum orsubspecies - noun taxonomy A
specific taxonomic category abovesuperfamily and belowinfraorder ; aparvorder
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- noun animal or plant group having natural relations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ..."
"Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done." greygirlbeast 2010
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The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ..."
"Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done." greygirlbeast 2010
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An example of natural turning on of a complex latent program in a lower taxon is discussed.
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Just came across this article on an anigmatic new taxon from the Ediacaran, reporting the discovery of the eight-armed organism Eoandromeda octobrachiata from China and Australia.
"I don't sleep. I dream." greygirlbeast 2008
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The best-known example of a member of a Lazarus taxon is the coelacanth, a fish closely related to amphibians that had been thought to have died out with the dinosaurs -- only to turn up in the net of a South African trawler in 1938.
Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa Edward Willett 2007
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This is O. osborni, a taxon from the Congo (first described in 1919 and given its own genus, Osteoblepharon) until recently regarded as a subspecies of O. tetraspis.
Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006
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Note as usual that the discovery date of a taxon is not necessarily the same as the date as when it was first named or recognised as new.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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This is O. osborni, a taxon from the Congo (first described in 1919 and given its own genus, Osteoblepharon) until recently regarded as a subspecies of O. tetraspis.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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If Hydromantes and Speleomantes are the same genus, the distribution of this taxon is pretty odd: it occurs as relict populations in Italy, France and Sardinia, and then also in California.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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That’s good news, because Ikanogavialis (best known for I. gameroi from Upper Miocene* Venezuela [a jaw segment from this taxon is figured at left]) is – while not the same thing as Gavialis – still undoubtedly a member of the gharial family, Gavialidae.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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