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Taxonomy vs Afrothere - What's the difference?

taxonomy | afrothere |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and afrothere

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while afrothere is an afrotherian.

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    afrothere

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) An afrotherian.
  • * 2004 , , The Ancestor's Tale , Mariner Books, page 222:
  • Golden moles and tenrecs seem to be related to each other, and most modern authorities place them within the afrotheres .
  • * 2007 , Rodolphe Tabuce et al., "Early Tertiary Mammals from North Africa Reinforce the Molecular Afrotheria Clade", Proceedings of the Royal Society B , volume 274, page 1159:
  • In the absence of a comprehensive fossil record for stem members of crown Afrotheria, most high-level phylogenetic analyses have been based primarily on the morphology of extant afrotheres […].