Taxonomy vs Agnathan - What's the difference?
taxonomy | agnathan |
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.
(zoology) Belonging or pertaining to the superclass Agnatha, the jawless vertebrates.
* 2005 , Tim Haines and Paul Chambers, The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life , BBC Books, page 20:
(zoology) A member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates.
* 1956 , D. R. Newth, "On the Neural Crest of the Lamprey Embryo", Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology , volume 4, page 358:
* 1992 , Peter J. Hanley et al., "Hagfish Humoral Defense Protein Exhibits Structural and Functional Homology with Mammalian Complement Components", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , volume 89, page 7910:
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and agnathan
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while agnathan is (zoology) a member of the superclass agnatha of jawless vertebrates.As an adjective agnathan is
(zoology) belonging or pertaining to the superclass agnatha, the jawless vertebrates.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee 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 * ontologyagnathan
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(wikipedia agnathan)Adjective
(en adjective)- Haikouichthys is one of three species of jawless (or agnathan ) fish to be found in the Early Cambrian period.
Noun
(en noun)- Thus should the cranial neural crest in cyclostomes prove to be non-skeletogenous this might be a reflection either of its own primitiveness or of the different evolutionary origins and morphological status of the visceral skeleton in agnathans and gnathostomes.
- The hagfish is an agnathan , a modern representative of the earliest evolved group of vertebrates, the ostracoderms or jawless fishes, which arose prior to the ancient placoderms (3).