Taxonomy, sometimes alpha taxonomy, is the
science of finding, describing and categorising
organisms, thus giving rise to taxonomic groups or
taxa, which may then be
named.There are seven major levels of taxonomic groupings in traditional
Linnaean taxonomy: Kingdom, Phylum or Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species (each of which may have several super- or subgroupings). Alpha taxonomy, however, focuses more on the species end of that spectrum (e.g., classifying organisms [specimens] into species groups, and classifying those into genera, rather than determining the higher-level relationships between families or orders).
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