Endemic and Taxon (in CC amphib glossary)

[John]

Adjective: in terms of organisms, this term is used to refer to a species confined or belonging exclusively to one specific area.

 

[Jan]

Endemic: A term referring to a taxon restricted to a specific region or location.

 

[Jennewt]

Taxon (plural taxa): a taxonomic group, such as a family, genus or species. Can be used, for example, in situations where there could be uncertainty about whether the animals in question are a single species, subspecies, or a group of related species.

 

[Jan]

Taxon (plural taxa): a taxonomic group, such as a family, genus or species. Can be used, for example, in situations where there could be uncertainty about whether the animals in question are a single species, subspecies, or a group of related species.

In this thread (http://www.caudata.org/forum/f1-gen...ame-scientific-latin-name-taxon-taxonomy.html), Abrahm had proposed the following definition for taxon:

Taxon: A name for a taxonomic group the plural of which is taxa. Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species are the main taxa from highest and broadest to lowest and narrowest. These may also be modified by the prefixes super-, sub- and infra- which denote a rank above the taxa, beneath the taxa and beneath the subtaxa respectively.

Thoughts (?) on combining both defs to read:

Taxon (plural taxa): Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species are the main taxa from highest and broadest to lowest and narrowest. These may also be modified by the prefixes super-, sub- and infra- which denote a rank above the taxa, beneath the taxa and beneath the subtaxa, respectively. The term taxon/taxa may also be used in situations where there could be uncertainty about whether the animal(s) in question are a single species, subspecies, or a group of related species.