Noun
taxon (plural taxa or (proscribed) taxons)
(taxonomy) A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:taxon
Additionally, Linnaeus created a wastebasket taxon "monstrosus" for "wild and monstrous humans, unknown groups, and more or less abnormal people". Source: Internet
As a result, it informs the user as to what the relatives of the taxon are hypothesized to be. Source: Internet
Although the dog-like hyenas thrived 15 million years ago (with one taxon having colonised North America), they became extinct after a change in climate along with the arrival of canids into Eurasia. Source: Internet
Both kinship groups, the odd-toed ungulates and litopterna-notoungulata are now in the higher-level taxon the Panperissodactyla. Source: Internet
Another house wren complex taxon; other scientific names include T. musculus martinicensis and T. martinicensis. Source: Internet
A paraphyletic taxon contains its most recent common ancestor, but does not contain all the descendants of that ancestor. Source: Internet