Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life/Sample Taxoboxes
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)[edit]
Level: Plantae[edit]
| Plants | ||||
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| Scientific classification | ||||
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| Divisions | ||||
| Nonvascular plants
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(example from Plant)
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Synonyms and common names[edit]
Where found.
Text[edit]
Whatever you want to say.
Classification[edit]
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[edit]
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)
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References[edit]
Give long form (good for printing) of references here.
Level: Division[edit]
| Flowering plants | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific classification | ||||
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| Classes | ||||
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Liliopsida (monocots) |
(example from Flowering_plant)
Level: Class[edit]
| Dicotyledons | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific classification | ||||||
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| Orders | ||||||
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Subclass Asteridae |
(example from Magnoliopsida)
Level: Order[edit]
| Scrophulariales | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific classification | ||||||||
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| Families | ||||||||
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Acanthaceae | ||||||||
| Ref. Uni-Ham 52efam 2002-09-06 |
Note the Reference line. (example from Scrophulariales)
Level: Family[edit]
| Scrophulariaceae | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||
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| Genera | ||||||||||
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Agalinis Raf. -- false foxglove |
(example from Scrophulariaceae)
Level: Genus[edit]
| Spiderwort | ||||||||||||
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| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||
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| Species | ||||||||||||
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Tradescantia bracteata Small ex Britt. |
(example from Spiderwort)
Level: Species[edit]
| White ash | ||||||||||||||
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| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||
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| 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.