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In biology, taxonomic rank (which some authors prefer to call nomenclatural rank [1] because ranking is part of nomenclature rather than taxonomy proper, according to some definitions of these terms) is the relative or absolute level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in a hierarchy that reflects evolutionary relationships.
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)".
This template is used to display a taxobox for a species whose parent's taxonomy is stored in taxonomy templates. A requirement is that the name of the species is displayed as a simple binomial (i.e. in the form Genus species ).
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
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 }} .
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.
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.