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What is a taxon?

What is a taxon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (taxonomy) Any of the taxonomic categories, such as phylum or subspecies.
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The proboscis is a synapomorphy of the taxon and is used primarily in prey capture.
Each taxon represents a single species, except where the number of taxa is given in parentheses.
Afrotheria is a newly recognized taxon comprising elephants, hyraxes, sea cows, aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, and elephant shrews.
This group is represented by a single extant species which is thought to be the sister taxon to all other frogs.
According to our results, Sclerothorax is nested well within the higher stereospondyls, forming the sister taxon of capitosauroids.
As with many of the modem Eucopia species, this fossil taxon is characterized by the possession of highly elongate posterior pereiopods.

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