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Wastebasket taxon
Meaning
Noun
●
A
taxon
that
exists
only to
classify
organisms
that do not
fit
anywhere else
, being either
paraphyletic
or
polyphyletic
and therefore not considered
valid
under
modern
rules
of
taxon
omy.
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