taxonomic group
Noun
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Animal or plant group having natural relations (synset 108008892)
is a type of: biological group - a group of plants or animalssubtypes:
- 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: taxon, taxonomic category
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