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n. - Animal or plant group having natural relations.

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  • An example of natural turning on of a complex latent program in a lower taxon is discussed.
  • Note as usual that the discovery date of a taxon is not necessarily the same as the date as when it was first named or recognised as new.
  • This is O. osborni, a taxon from the Congo (first described in 1919 and given its own genus, Osteoblepharon) until recently regarded as a subspecies of O. tetraspis.
  • Just came across this article on an anigmatic new taxon from the Ediacaran, reporting the discovery of the eight-armed organism Eoandromeda octobrachiata from China and...
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