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 |
|---|---|
| Monsonia | — |
| Hypseocharis | — |
| Heritiera | — |
| Pterocarya | — |
| Cyclocarya | — |
| Oreomunnea | — |
| Annamocarya | — |
| Morella | — |
| Comptonia | — |
| Canacomyrica | monotypic genus |
| Fuscospora | — |
| Lophozonia | — |
| Trisyngyne | — |
| Rhoiptelea | — |
| evening primrose family | taxonomic group |
| Epilobium | — |
| Chamerion | — |
| Clarkia | — |
| Gaura | — |
| Lopezia | — |
| Jussiaea | — |
| Boisduvalia | — |
| Kneiffia | — |
| Xylonagra | — |
| Nesaea | — |
| Rotala | — |
| Ammannia | — |
| Heimia | — |
| Decodon | — |
| Peplis | — |
| Diplusodon | — |
| Physocalymma | — |
| Lafoensia | — |
| Lawsonia | — |
| Ginoria | — |
| Pemphis | — |
| Tetrataxis | — |
| Didiplis | — |
| Crenea | — |
| Hionanthera | — |
| Salvadoropsis | — |
| Peridiscus | — |
| Lythroideae | — |
| Medinilla | — |
| Penaea | — |
| Brachysiphon | — |
| Glischrocolla | — |
| Nylandtia | — |
| Sonderothamnus | — |
| Stylapterus | — |