wastebasket taxon

informal

(informal) A taxon that exists only to classify organisms that do not fit anywhere else, being either paraphyletic or polyphyletic and therefore not considered valid under modern rules of taxonomy.

Japanese Meaning

他の明確な分類群に当てはまらない生物をまとめるために設定された、いわゆる「ごみ箱」的な分類群。近代の厳密な分類基準では、有効な分類群とみなされない（非公式・暫定的なグループ）。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

何年もの間、あの一群のあまり知られていない化石は寄せ集めの分類群として扱われていたが、分子研究により多系統であることが示された。

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(informal) A taxon that exists only to classify organisms that do not fit anywhere else, being either paraphyletic or polyphyletic and therefore not considered valid under modern rules of taxonomy.

Extinct forms like Dimetrodon and Velociraptor are grouped with their living relatives. Therefore, the wastebasket taxon Reptilia is replaced by the clades Diapsida and Synapsida, and birds are classified as dinosaurs.

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wastebasket taxa

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