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pseudotaxonomy

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + taxonomy.

  1. borrowed from taxonomie
  2. prefixed as pseudotaxonomy — “pseudo + taxonomy”

Definitions

  1. A false or artificial taxonomy.

    • ... pseudotaxonomy, is completely rejected. Hamshaw Thomas had already argued in print that fossils of flowering plants contradicted, or at best failed to confirm, the supposedly evolutionary arrangement of the higher plant taxa.
    • Their approach is to sort specimens based on their major morphological characteristics, rather than their strict taxonomy. They named this type of pseudotaxonomy the morphospecies approach.

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