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).

Level: Plantae
Divisions Nonvascular plants Bryophyta - mosses . . Vascular plants Seedless Psilophyta - whisk ferns . . Seeded Gymnosperms Coniferophyta - conifers . . Angiosperms Magnoliophyta - flowering plants ..

(example from Plant)

Page contents:

Synonyms and common names
Where found.

Text
Whatever you want to say.

Classification
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
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

Level: Division
Classes Liliopsida (monocots) Magnoliopsida (dicots) ..

(example from Flowering_plant)

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

(example from Magnoliopsida)

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Level: Order
Families Acanthaceae . . Ref. Uni-Ham 52efam 2002-09-06

Note the Reference line. (example from Scrophulariales)

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Level: Family
Genera Agalinis Raf. -- false foxglove . . and about 200 more.

(example from Scrophulariaceae)

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Level: Genus
Species Tradescantia bracteata Small ex Britt. ..

(example from Spiderwort)

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Level: Species
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.