taxa
Noun
The word is derived from taxon
Examples
An estimated 11,000 extinct taxa have been described, although the soft-bodied nature of cephalopods means they are not easily fossilised. citation Cephalopods are found in all the oceans of Earth.
A few taxa experimented with different approaches to scale formation; some were only very weakly calcified and may have mainly been organic in nature.
As comparatively few polychaete taxa have been subject to cladistic analysis, some groups which are usually considered invalid today may eventually be reinstated.
Because all animals belonging to Felidae’s sister taxa, Viverridae, have long tails, scientists could infer that this character state represents the ancestral trait.
A rare few number of taxa have extended diploid lifecycles, but can be common species.
As noted above, a cladogram is the diagrammatic result of a parsimony analysis, which groups taxa on the basis of synapomorphies alone.