What is a taxa?

1. What is a taxa?

A taxon is any of the taxonomic categories used to group and classify living things.

Taxonomic classification follows a hierarchy that goes from the broadest to the most specific levels to group living things.

So we can have a taxonomic classification according to kingdom, family, genus, etc.

 

 

 
How is the taxonomic catalog of Marimurtra classified?

By species

However, there are species that have recognized infraspecific taxa and these have also been included in the taxonomic catalog of Marimurtra.

What information does the scientific name of a species give us?

The multiplication symbol in a scientific name “x” refers to the fact that some kind of hybridization exists in the taxon it represents.