Taxon / taxa
Taxa is plural of taxon. A taxon is an element of a taxonomy. Taxa are the named classification units to which individuals or sets of species are assigned, such as species or genus. In biology it is a grouping of organisms given a formal taxonomic name such as species, genus, family, etc.
Literature:
Wikipedia. The free encyclopedia. (2006). Taxon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxon
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 28-08-2006