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 |
|---|---|
| Thlypopsis | — |
| Catamenia | — |
| Phrygilus | — |
| Xenodacnis | — |
| Oreomanes fraseri | — |
| Melanospiza | — |
| Cytisus | — |
| Lathyrus | — |
| Sesbania | — |
| Pterocarpus | — |
| Glycyrrhiza | — |
| Cisticolidae | — |
| Hedysarum | — |
| Millettia | — |
| Cyanerpes caeruleus | — |
| Poospiza | — |
| Oryzoborus nuttingi | — |
| Hunnemannia | — |
| Alectura | — |
| Megapodius | — |
| Sarcopterygii | — |
| Gadus | — |
| Cervus | — |
| Cynomys | — |
| Notocitellus | — |
| Glyphotes | — |
| Lariscus | — |
| Menetes | — |
| Aeretes | — |
| Belomys | — |
| Biswamoyopterus | — |
| Hylopetes | — |
| Iomys | — |
| Petaurista | — |
| Trogopterus | — |
| Dremomys | — |
| Exilisciurus | — |
| Platystemon | — |
| Dickinsonia | fossil taxon |
| Charniodiscus | fossil taxon |
| Tribrachidium | fossil taxon |
| Cyclomedusa | fossil taxon |
| Cape Sable seaside sparrow | subspecies |
| Spermophilus | — |
| Helianthus | — |
| Taraxacum | — |
| Artemisia | — |
| Chrysanthemum | — |
| Cynara | — |
| Tagetes | — |