Wastebasket taxon (also called a wastebin taxon, dustbin taxon or catch-all taxon) is a term used by some taxonomists to refer to a taxon that has the...

(botany) Rank (zoology) Segregate (taxonomy) Virus classification Wastebasket taxon This is not considered as mandatory, however, as indicated by terms...

Georges Cuvier. "Mastodon" for its taxonomic history served as a wastebasket taxon for any fossil proboscidean species whose dentitions appeared closer...

neritic zones of the inland sea. Basilosaurus was at one point a wastebasket taxon before the genus slowly started getting reevaluated, with many species...

early, primitive ungulates. It is now largely considered to be a wastebasket taxon, having served as a dumping ground for classifying ungulates which...

thought to have had a worldwide distribution due to the genus' use as a wastebasket taxon for numerous species of conical-shelled nautiloids throughout the...

ambiguity regarding the definition of the genus, which led it to become a wastebasket taxon that contained as many as fifty different species. The taxonomic issue...

growing to a height of 60–90 cm (24–35 inches). The genus was a wastebasket taxon, and many of its members have been reclassified in smaller genera...

the genus Ontocetus (now a genus of walrus), and then moved to a wastebasket taxon Scaldicetus until Boersma and his colleagues gave a new generic name...

classification (e.g., the proposed order Insectivora is considered a "wastebasket taxon", as it groups small mammals that do not fit nicely into other taxa)...