Taxonomy (biology)
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In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Modern approaches prioritize common ancestry and evolut
Description of rare animals (写生珍禽图), by Song dynasty painter Huang Quan (903–965)
Title page of Systema Naturae, Leiden, 1735
Evolution of the vertebrates at class level, width of spindles indicating number of families. Spindle diagrams are typical for evolutionary taxonomy.
The same relationship, expressed as a cladogram typical for cladistics
Genus
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Genus is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the
Estimated accepted genus totals by kingdom – based on Rees et al., 2020