taxon

Noun
  1. is a type of: biological group - a group of plants or animals
    subtypes:
    • adapid, adapid group - extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
    • omomyid, omomyid group - extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
    • kingdom - the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia
    • subkingdom - (biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom
    • variety - (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
    • phylum - (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes
    • subphylum - (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and a class
    • superphylum - (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass
    • class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
    • subclass - (biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order
    • superclass - (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class
    • order - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
    • suborder - (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order
    • superorder - (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass
    • family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
    • superfamily - (biology) a taxonomic group ranking below an order but above a family
    • subfamily - (biology) a taxonomic category below a family
    • tribe - (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
    • genus - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
    • subgenus - (biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species
    • monotype - (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus)
    • species - (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
    • race, subspecies - (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
    • form, strain, var., variant - (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
    • type - (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
    • group pteridospermae, group pteridospermaphyta, pteridospermae, pteridospermaphyta - used in some classification systems: a group of extinct fossil gymnosperms coextensive with the order Cycadofilicales
    • centrospermae, group centrospermae - used in former classification systems; approximately synonymous with order Caryophyllales
    • amentiferae, group amentiferae - used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins
    • phycomycetes, phycomycetes group - a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota; a category not used in all systems
    same as: taxonomic category, taxonomic group

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