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nomenclatural rank > relative rank

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relative rank  

Definition

  • Nomenclatural rank conceived and used as provisionally attached to taxa, the same taxon being liable to shift from one rank to another in order to express the hierarchical relationships between taxa, according to the phylogenetic hypothesis adopted. (Dubois 2007)

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • Dubois, A. (2007) Phylogeny, taxonomy and nomenclature: the problem of taxonomic categories and of nomenclatural ranks. Zootaxa, 1519: 27–68. [ https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1519.1.3 ]

Identifier

  • 1832

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-MXKJV7PZ-P

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