Concept information
Preferred term
taxonomy
Type
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Topic
Definition
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The science of classification of organisms; the arrangement of organisms into systematic groups such as species, genus, family, and order.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- animal taxonomy
- biological nomenclature
- chemotaxonomy
- homonym
- insect taxonomy
- molecular systematics
- morphospecies
- new status
- new taxa
- numerical taxonomy
- phylotype
- plant taxonomy
- species identification
- taxon descriptions
- taxonomic keys
- taxonomic ranks
- taxonomic revisions
- type collections
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Synonyms
- biological classification
- biological systematics
- biosystematics
- classification (organisms)
- systematics (organisms)
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/9518
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