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  2. Genus - Wikipedia

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    Within the same kingdom, one generic name can apply to one genus only. However, many names have been assigned (usually unintentionally) to two or more different genera. For example, the platypus belongs to the genus Ornithorhynchus although George Shaw named it Platypus in 1799 (these two names are thus synonyms).

  3. List of plant genus names with etymologies (A–C) - Wikipedia

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    Contents. List of plant genus names with etymologies (A–C) Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus 's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [ 1 ] Many of these plants are listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners.

  4. Taxonomic rank - Wikipedia

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    The basic ranks are species and genus. When an organism is given a species name it is assigned to a genus, and the genus name is part of the species name. The species name is also called a binomial, that is, a two-term name. For example, the zoological name for the human species is Homo sapiens. This is usually italicized in print or underlined ...

  5. Taxonomy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    e. In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement' and -νομία (-nomia) ' method ') is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a taxonomic ...

  6. Order (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Order (Latin: ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes. An immediately higher rank, superorder, is sometimes added ...

  7. Bacterial taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Bacterial taxonomy is subfield of taxonomy devoted to the classification of bacteria specimens into taxonomic ranks. In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, [ 1 ] each species is assigned to a genus resulting in a two-part name. This name denotes the two lowest levels in a hierarchy of ranks, increasingly larger groupings ...

  8. List of bacteria genera - Wikipedia

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    Genus Authority Phylum Class Order Family Synonyms "Deinonema" Ludwig W et al. 1990 "Ca. Ferristratum" McAllister et al. 2021 "Guhaiyingella" Haiying 1995 "Magnoovum" Orpin 1976 Eadie's oval "Nanobacterium" Ciftcioglu et al. 1997 "Nonospora" Fokin et al. 1987 "Ca. Ovibacter" corrig. Fenchel & Thar 2004 "Parakaryon" Yamaguchi et al. 2012

  9. List of mammal genera - Wikipedia

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    Genus Ziphius – Cuvier's beaked whale. Genus Tasmacetus – Shepherd's beaked whale. Subfamily Hyperoodontinae. Genus Hyperoodon – bottlenose whales. Genus Indopacetus – Longman's beaked whale. Genus Mesoplodon – mesoplodont beaked whales. Superfamily Platanistoidea. Family Platanistidae – South Asian river dolphins.