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Taxonomy (from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis), meaning 'arrangement', and -νομία (-nomia), meaning 'method') is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped together into Taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a super-group of higher rank, thus creating a taxonomic hierarchy. The principal ranks in modern use are domain, kingdom, phylum (division is sometimes used in botany in place of phylum), class, order, family, genus and species. The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus is regarded as the father of taxonomy, as he developed a system known as Linnaean taxonomy for categorization of organisms and binomial nomenclature for naming organisms.

With the advent of such fields of study as phylogenetics, cladistics, and systematics, the Linnaean system has progressed to a system of modern biological classification based on the evolutionary relationships between organisms, both living and extinct.

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• Automated species identification
• Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities
• Genetypes
• Tree of Life  
• Glossary of scientific naming
• Identification (biology)
• Incertae sedis, or "of uncertain placement", a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined
• Taxonomy (general)
• Type (biology)
• Virus classification

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`Algal taxonomy (4 C, 5 P)

`  Taxon authorities (5 C, 29 P)

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`  Taxonomy (biology) books (4 P)

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`  Eukaryote taxonomy (5 C)

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`  Incertae sedis (2 C, 24 P)

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`  Taxonomic lists (9 C, 9 P)

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`  Taxonomy organizations (11 P)

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`Phylogenetics (6 C, 133 P)

Plant taxonomy (6 C, 48 P)

Prehistoric life sorted by taxa (6 C)

`  Prokaryotes taxonomy (3 C, 3 P)

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• Taxonomic Ranks

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`Systematics journals (8 P)

`  Systems of taxonomy by organism (6 C)

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`Taxa named after David Attenborough (19 P)

Taxonomic synonyms (2 C, 3 P)

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`  Taxonomy (biology)

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`  AIDGAP series

  Algae DNA barcoding

  'The All-Species Living Tree' Project

  Analytical profile index

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`  Biodiversity informatics

  Biovar

  Body plan

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Catalogue of Life

  Cavalier-Smith's system of classification

  Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge

  Chresonym

  Circumscription (taxonomy)

  Conserved name

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`  Register of Antarctic Marine Species

  Taxonomic database

  Deep homology

  DELTA (taxonomy)

  DNA barcoding

  Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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`  Emendation (taxonomy)

  Encyclopedia of Life

  EPPO Code

  Evolutionary grade

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`  Fish DNA barcoding

  Form classification

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`  Genetypes

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`  Homonym (biology)

  Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy

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`  Identification (biology)

  Identification key

  Taxonomic impediment

  Incertae sedis

  Inclusion (taxonomy)

  Taxonomic inflation

  Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

  Isonym

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`  Taxonomy of Liliaceae

  Linnaean enterprise

  Linnaean taxonomy

  List of organisms named after famous people

  List of taxa with candidatus status

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`  Microbial DNA barcoding

  Multi-access key

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`  Taxonomy of Narcissus

The NCBI Taxonomy Homepage

  Neoteny

  Neoteny in humans

  Nomen conservandum

  Nomen oblitum

  NRANK

  Numerical taxonomy

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`  Officinalis

  Oligotyping (taxonomy)

  Open nomenclature

  Outgroup (cladistics)

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`  Parataxonomy

  Patrocladogram

  Plazi

  Principle of Typification

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`  Relative apparent synapomorphy analysis

  Reticulation (single-access key)

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`  Sanctus (species)

  Segregate (taxonomy)

  Taxonomic sequence

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`  Tautonym

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  Taxonomy of Allium

  Taxonomy of Tulipa

  Transformed cladistics

  Type (biology)

  Type genus

  Type species

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`  Wastebasket taxon

  Web-based taxonomy

  Wikispecies

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