Classification

Definition of Classification

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From Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants, 2006 by Murray Fowler, Susan K. Mikota

Classification. The practice of grouping organisms into a hierarchy of categories ranging from subspecies, Species, genera, families, orders, classes, phyla, and king doms (except for the subspecies, all these are obligatory categories, see definition below). Taxa included in each of these categories are entities to themselves encompass ing unique features. Thus, organisms classified in a Species are more similar to each other than they are to members of other Species in the same genus. Similarly, genera in one family share more characters with each other than with genera in other families, and so on.

Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants, 2006 by Murray Fowler, Susan K. Mikota

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2024). Classification. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=176. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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