Taxon

Word TAXON
Character 5
Hyphenation tax on
Pronunciations /ˈtæksɒn/

Definitions and meanings of "Taxon"

What do we mean by taxon?

A taxonomic category or group, such as a phylum, order, family, genus, or species. noun

A taxonomic group, or the name of a taxonomic grouping. noun

Any of the taxonomic categories such as phylum or subspecies noun

A specific taxonomic category above superfamily and below infraorder; a parvorder noun

Animal or plant group having natural relations noun

A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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The word "taxon" in example sentences

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 ..." ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

An example of natural turning on of a complex latent program in a lower taxon is discussed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2008)

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. ❋ Edward Willett (2007)

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. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

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. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

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. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

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. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

We therefore, arbitrarily, chose cut-off points in how much variation we tolerate within any taxon – in other words, we arbitrarily decide how we chop up a lineage into those units we call species and genera. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

They argue, for example, that Sánchez-Hernández ignored (or was unaware of) workers in the museum in which the material was housed to publish on a specimen and name it without notice, who were themselves preparing a manuscript naming the taxon (of which name was available in musuem labels). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

In the following information, definitions and criteria the term 'taxon' is used for convenience, and may represent species or lower taxonomic levels, including forms that are not yet formally described. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Linnaean system would define the taxon 'Aves' to include all modern birds, and base this taxon on a number of shared characteristics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mammals are a clade, and therefore the cladists are happy to acknowledge the traditional taxon Mammalia; and birds, too, are a clade, universally ascribed to the formal taxon Aves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In contrast, the Linnaean taxa of "order," "class" etc. must all be used when naming a new taxon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The scientists who described the organism had to make a decision: did they erect a new taxon, which would carry no inherent relationship to Aves; or did they modify the characteristics of the existing group to include the unusual fossil? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since modern birds are not descended from Archaeopteryx, and Archaeopteryx has characters which no living birds possess, it could not be included within the existing taxon 'Aves'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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