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There are some Sample Taxoboxes taken from the Plant Kingdom. Taxoboxes from other Kingdoms should generally follow the same format (with Phylum replacing Division).

Sample taxoboxes (plants)

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Level: Plantae

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Plants
Scientific classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Plantae
Divisions
Nonvascular plants


    Bryophyta - mosses
.
.
Vascular plants
Seedless
    Psilophyta - whisk ferns
.
.
Seeded
Gymnosperms
    Coniferophyta - conifers
.
.
Angiosperms
   Magnoliophyta - flowering plants
.
.


(example from Plant)

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Synonyms and common names

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Where found.

Text

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Whatever you want to say.

Classification

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This is pretty much covered in the taxobox; if you decide to include it, add comments to the entries. However, for intermediate ranks (down to Family) a staggered listing up and down one full rank can be a powerful way to show how this group of organisms is related to others.

Problems

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Here we can note deviations from what the writer has accepted as a standard. In Solanales I show two families that my source did not show as belonging here. One it placed in another order; the other was not even in its data base. (from Talk:Solanales)

rhsb

References

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Give long form (good for printing) of references here.


Level: Division

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Flowering plants
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Classes

Liliopsida (monocots)
Magnoliopsida (dicots)
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.


(example from Flowering_plant)


Level: Class

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Dicotyledons
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Orders

Subclass Asteridae
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Asterales (sunflowers) - 1 family
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Callitrichales - 2 families
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.
Subclass Caryophyllidae
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Caryophyllales - 12 families
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.


(example from Magnoliopsida)


Level: Order

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Scrophulariales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Scrophulariales
Families

   Acanthaceae
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Ref. Uni-Ham 52efam 2002-09-06

Note the Reference line. (example from Scrophulariales)


Level: Family

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Scrophulariaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Scrophulariales
Family:Scrophulariaceae
Genera

  Agalinis Raf. -- false foxglove
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.
and about 200 more.


(example from Scrophulariaceae)


Level: Genus

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Spiderwort
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Liliopsida
Order:Commelinales
Family: Commelinaceae
Genus: Tradescantia
Species

Tradescantia bracteata Small ex Britt.
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(example from Spiderwort)


Level: Species

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White ash
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Scrophulariales *
Family:Oleaceae
Genus:Fraxinus
Species:americana
Binomial name
Fraxinus americana L.
* Some botanists include the Oleaceae
in the order Lamiales.


(example from White_ash)

This box also shows a comment on the botany; on this level the info should not be included in the text, but the taxobox needs it.

Also note that both the genus name and species epithet are bolded. Since this taxobox if for the species, the genus is a link. If this species were monotypic, the genus would not be linked. For other boxes that cover multiple ranks, all relevant ranks should be bolded.