taxon
C838
concept
A taxon is a group of one or more organisms classified together as a unit in a biological taxonomy based on shared characteristics.
All labels observed (53)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| taxon canonical | 3,393 |
| taxonomic family | 133 |
| mammal family | 63 |
| taxonomic group | 55 |
| fossil taxon | 52 |
| marsupial | 48 |
| subspecies | 46 |
| taxonomic order | 43 |
| fungal genus | 42 |
| phylum | 31 |
| extinct taxon | 14 |
| insect family | 12 |
| model organism | 12 |
| taxonomic subfamily | 11 |
| ascomycete | 9 |
| subphylum | 9 |
| fungal class | 8 |
| animal phylum | 5 |
| monotypic genus | 5 |
| beetle family | 3 |
| proposed taxon | 3 |
| reptile family | 3 |
| taxonomic subclass | 3 |
| biological class | 2 |
| class of organisms | 2 |
| dinosaur genus | 2 |
| extinct animal subspecies | 2 |
| fungal phylum | 2 |
| paraphyletic group | 2 |
| taxonomicClass | 2 |
| type species | 2 |
| vernacular taxon | 2 |
| animal taxon | 1 |
| carnivorous plant taxon | 1 |
| clade of mammals | 1 |
| domain of life | 1 |
| endemic taxon | 1 |
| eukaryotic taxon | 1 |
| extant taxon | 1 |
| genus of tortoises | 1 |
| global bird taxonomy | 1 |
| historical taxonomic genus | 1 |
| insect taxon | 1 |
| mammalian family | 1 |
| marsupial order | 1 |
| paraphyletic taxon | 1 |
| reptile taxon | 1 |
| rhinoceros subspecies | 1 |
| species complex | 1 |
| stramenopile taxon | 1 |
| subspecies of cougar | 1 |
| superphylum | 1 |
| taxonomic concept | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: taxon
Generated description
A taxon is a group of one or more organisms classified together as a unit in a biological taxonomy based on shared characteristics.
Instances (3,947)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Hystricognathi | — |
| Castorimorpha | — |
| Atlantoxerus | — |
| Ammospermophilus | — |
| Haematopodidae | — |
| Mazama | — |
| Zelkova | — |
| Poaceae | — |
| Ehrhartoideae | — |
| Gliridae | — |
| mountain beaver | extant taxon |
| Oryza | — |
| Poales | — |
| Rallidae | — |
| Recurvirostridae | — |
| Suboscines | taxonomic group |
| Dermochelyidae | taxonomic family |
| Myomorpha | — |
| Otospermophilus | — |
| Pteromys | — |
| Eutamias | — |
| Ratufa | — |
| Carduelinae | taxonomic subfamily |
| Sciurotamias | — |
| Pisum | — |
| Glycine | — |
| Arachis | — |
| Medicago | — |
| Trifolium | — |
| Dalbergia | — |
| Astragalus | — |
| Onobrychis | — |
| Galega | — |
| Ulex | — |
| Melilotus | — |
| Indigofera | — |
| Vigna | — |
| Macrocephalon | monotypic genus |
| TACK superphylum | taxonomic group |
| Neornithes | — |
| Nesospiza | — |
| Oryzoborus maximiliani | — |
| Coerebinae | — |
| Tangara | — |
| Ramphocelus | — |
| Conirostrum | — |
| Hemispingus | — |
| Euphonia | — |
| Chlorochrysa | — |
| Tersina viridis | — |