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More accurately, if |taxon=TAXON, the system will expect there to be a page at "Template:Taxonomy/TAXON". In some circumstances, TAXON may not be the name of the taxon, e.g. if a plant and animal share the same genus name, there may be two taxonomy templates called "Template:Taxonomy/GENUS (plant)" and "Template:Taxonomy/GENUS (animal)".
The taxon-name part may occasionally need to include disambiguation (typically if an animal and a plant have the same taxon name). Examples are: Template:Taxonomy/Ursus – straightforward taxonomy template for the bear genus; Template:Taxonomy/Abronia – straightforward taxonomy template for the plant genus
The taxonomy templates are pages with titles of the general form "Template:Taxonomy/taxon" where taxon represents the name of the taxon. To show that a plant genus with the nonsense name Junkia is in the family Junkiaceae, you would create a page with the title "Template:Taxonomy/Junkia". When finished, the page would look something like this:
Every article on a currently accepted taxon should include an infobox—specifically, a taxobox—which gives the place of the taxon in a hierarchical classification and some basic taxonomic data. The taxobox can be generated by using the Automatic taxobox system with templates such as {{ Automatic taxobox }} and {{ Speciesbox }} .
Produces a table row for a taxon in a {}. It is intended to be used only in other taxonomy templates, particularly Template:Taxobox/core. It takes three parameters: rank – the Latin rank of the taxon (e.g. "ordo"), which will be anglicized before display (required) link – the formatted taxon name with any wikilink to be used (required)
Sometimes, taxonomy is not as simple as we might like, so taxonomy templates need to handle more unusual features and a taxobox needs to contain more information than just ranks and taxon names. Some advanced cases are described here.
The list can be formatted using a number of templates, such as the specialized {{linked taxon list}} and {{linked species list}}, which deal with authorities as well (see the documentation at Template:Taxon list for variant templates), or using a general list template such as {{columns-list}}.
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy; pl.: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking , especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established.