therapsida). This is done for convenience; but it makes the mammals polyphyletic. Biological classification aims to group species together such that every...

and Diplura. All of these were once called insects. It seems they are polyphyletic, and evolved independently from each other. In other words, hexapoda...

group which contains organisms, without their common ancestor, is called polyphyletic. Convergent evolution is a usual cause of such groups. If a group contains...

Lesothosaurus-like animal. The group is not established; it appears to be polyphyletic, and its members may come from several other better-known groups. This...

Mustelinae is a large subfamily of mustelids. Genetic analysis shows it is polyphyletic, so it will probably be split down into proper clades. Until then, it...

Tabebuia is a polyphyletic assemblage today comprising 66 spp. For example red lapacho T impetigosa is considered as Handroanthus impetiginosus by Mattos...

of gastropods which look similar, but are not monophyletic. They are polyphyletic. Their similar shape and life styles is an example of convergent evolution...

reed beds. They are all members of the order Poales. Reeds are many polyphyletic species, which have all adapted to this wet habitat by convergent evolution...

Cephalaspis is quite a common fossil in these rocks. The term "Ostracoderm" is polyphyletic, because it refers to groups which should not be lumped together. Maisey...

Protura are basal to all other hexapods, although the hexapods may be polyphyletic. This short article about biology can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia...

discovery, from sequence analysis, that the old order Insectivora was polyphyletic. That meant it was not a single clade. The proposal was discarded when...

390 to 210 million years ago). The group is an evolutionary grade (a polyphyletic or paraphyletic group) of species which look rather similar. The name...

are grouped as in the text Fishes of the World. The order is probably polyphyletic, and changes may occur in this and other teleost orders. Recent morphological...

several groups in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. So, the fig wasps are a polyphyletic group: they include several unrelated lineages whose similarities are...

unspecialized pinnate leaves and quinolizilidine alkaloids, appears as polyphyletic Acosmium - Airyantha - Alexa - Ammodendron - Amphimas - Angylocalyx -...

phylogenetic trees, the first two groups show up as paraphyletic or polyphyletic, as do their main genera, Clostridium and Bacillus. Firmicutes make up...

Studies show they are not a monophyletic group. In fact, they are highly polyphyletic. Their relationships are not certain. Most are put in the Clostridiales...

its shape. Because the cell organelles of eukaryotes have different (polyphyletic) origins, the question arises as to whether the group is a unified clade...

monophyletic. By definition, wastebasket taxa are either paraphyletic or polyphyletic. Their name may still be very useful to biologists, because its members...

single clade. The old order Insectivora is now abandoned because it was polyphyletic. The new order Eulipotyphla has been shown to be monophyletic. The term...

officially recognized as molluscs and given their own class. The class is polyphyletic, and consists of two clades. "The Aplacophora". ucmp.berkeley.edu. Retrieved...

well-known order in traditional taxonomy. However, the Pulmonata is polyphyletic. This means the same life-style evolved in a number of different lines...

covers different groups, and they are not all closely related. They are a polyphyletic group. The term lumps together different kinds of organisms. They are...

think the Protista is not a natural clade (monophyletic), but rather a polyphyletic collection of single-celled organisms. This species consists of 14 "syngens"...

2002 molecular study of the tribe Gnaphalieae found the genus is likely polyphyletic, with X. bracteatum and X. viscosum removed from each other. There are...

sometimes called thistles, and if this is done thistles would form a polyphyletic group. Thistle is the floral emblem of Scotland. Genera in the Asteraceae...

phylogenetic study was published in 2010. The study found that Rhinomyias was polyphyletic. The genus Vauriella had been introduced by the German ornithologist...

proteins was published in 2010. The study found that Rhinomyias was polyphyletic. BirdLife International (2017). "Vauriella gularis". IUCN Red List of...

life-style or 'habit' evolved several times independently, so the group is polyphyletic. Their young are perfectly symmetrical, but the head is remodelled during...

bulbul family was published in 2007. This study found that Andropadus was polyphyletic. There was a revision to the generic classification. Five species were...

scientific term, it is no longer good, and is less used. Paraphyletic and polyphyletic taxa often represent evolutionary grades. In some cases paraphyletic...

the genus Sturnus. A molecular phylogenetic study found the genus was polyphyletic. This study caused a reorganization to create monotypic genera. The white-shouldered...

(Acacia subg. Phyllodineae sect. Botrycephalae) of eastern Australia are polyphyletic based on DNA sequence data". Australian Systematic Botany. 19 (4): 315–26...

†Megaraptora? Tyrannoraptora Sereno, 1999 †Aorun †Compsognathidae (possibly polyphyletic) †Tanycolagreus †Tyrannosauroidea Maniraptoromorpha Cau, 2018 †Coelurus...

   Branchiobdellida    Hirudinea – leeches Class Myzostomida Class Archiannelida (polyphyletic) Class Echiura? Class Machaeridia† *Some people think that the subclasses...

analysis on many rodent fossils. Their results made the suborder Sciuravida polyphyletic and invalid. The symbol "†" is means that the group is extinct. Suborder...

The 53rd plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904), showing organisms classified as Prosobranchia (now known to be polyphyletic)....