Definition: n. "A unit used in grouping and naming living organisms; a general term that can refer to any level of a taxonomic classification. Family, genus, and species are all taxa. The term taxa is also often used to refer to the nubmer of distinct forms within a vamily, or other taxonomic grouping, when there is ambiguity as to wehter some of those forms are species or subspecies. In this contect also called a form." (Source: Sibley)
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