Taxonomic inflation
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taxonomic-inflation-168-6860345
title:
Taxonomic inflation
text:
Taxonomic inflation is a pejorative term for what is perceived to be an excessive increase in the number of recognised taxa in a given context, due not to the discovery of new taxa but rather to putatively arbitrary changes to how taxa are delineated. The best known case is the elevation of a group of subspecies to species rank, through the arbitrary decision that the differences between the various taxa warrant distinguishing them at species rank. Taxonomic inflation is often claimed to occur f
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encyclopedia
description:
Term criticizing artificial increase in the total number of recognized species
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_inflation
date created:
2011-02-22T17:40:09Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T02:12:51Z
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