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  2. Phylum - Wikipedia

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    The term phylum was coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel from the Greek phylon (φῦλον, "race, stock"), related to phyle (φυλή, "tribe, clan"). [4] [5] Haeckel noted that species constantly evolved into new species that seemed to retain few consistent features among themselves and therefore few features that distinguished them as a group ("a self-contained unity"): "perhaps such a real and ...

  3. Taxonomic rank - Wikipedia

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    There are seven main taxonomic ranks: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species. In addition, domain (proposed by Carl Woese ) is now widely used as a fundamental rank, although it is not mentioned in any of the nomenclature codes, and is a synonym for dominion ( Latin : dominium ), introduced by Moore in 1974.

  4. List of short species names - Wikipedia

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    Skull of Beg tse (6 letters) Loa loa (6 letters) Original illustration of Tor tor (6 letters) Agra ce Erwin, 2010 - family Carabidae. One of more than 500 named species in the genus Agra of ground beetles; in this case, named after Terry Erwin's wife, Peruvian ornithologist Grace Servat. [13] †Beg tse Yu et al., 2020 - infraorder Neoceratopsia.

  5. List of long species names - Wikipedia

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    This anaerobic, gram-positive bacterium was previously named Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum (32 letters), but later became one of the longest accepted binomials upon being reclassified in the genus Thermoanaerobacterium (some sources, however, list this name as a synonym and still consider Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum to be the correct ...

  6. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    The 7 modern modes (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian) may be remembered in order with any of several mnemonics: I Don't Play Loud Music After Lunch; I Don't Punch Like Muhammad A Li; I Don't Particularly Like Modes A Lot; I Don't Particularly Like My Aunt's Lasagna

  7. Wikipedia:0.7/0.7index/Taxonomic units - Wikipedia

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    This is the index page for Taxonomic units. Taxonomic units. Animal ...

  8. Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks.A domain contains one or more kingdoms. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. In biology, a kingdom is the second highest taxonomic rank, just below domain.

  9. Taxonomy mnemonic - Wikipedia

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    The hierarchy of scientific classification. Taxonomy mnemonics are used to memorize the scientific classification applied in taxonomy. They are usually constructed with a series of words that begin with the letters KPCOFGS, corresponding to the initials of the primary taxonomic ranks.