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Meaning of "paraphyletic group"

In biology, a paraphyletic group refers to a taxonomic group that includes some but not all descendants from a common ancestor. It is a group that does not contain all the descendants of the most recent common ancestor of its members

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Basal eudicot is an informal name for a paraphyletic group.
The miacids are a paraphyletic group containing all miacoids that are not viverravids.
It is now regarded as a paraphyletic group.
Such a paraphyletic group would according to modern understanding not warrant a taxon name at all.
The arrangement of the members of a paraphyletic group is called a paraphyly.
A paraphyletic group is necessarily non-monophyletic.
Invertebrates form a paraphyletic group.
Pelycosaur a paraphyletic group comprising all Synapsida except therapsids.
The shelled coleoids do not form a clade or even a paraphyletic group.
Glaucidium forms a paraphyletic group with Surnia.
Excluding monocots from the dicots makes the latter a paraphyletic group.
The Choanozoa appear to be a paraphyletic group which gave rise to the animals.
Mesoeucrocodylia is the clade that includes Eusuchia and the paraphyletic group Mesosuchia.
Dromasaurs are a paraphyletic group of anomodont therapsids from the Middle Permian.
This makes the Platyzoa a paraphyletic group.

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Rhizobia are a paraphyletic group that fall into two classes of proteobacteria-the alphaproteobacteria and betaproteobacteria.
Therefore, pteridophytes do not form a clade but a paraphyletic group.
Rhizobia are a paraphyletic group that fall into two classes of proteobacteria - the alphaproteobacteria and betaproteobacteria.
They are sometimes included in an informal paraphyletic group called the " fern allies ".
A paraphyletic group is similar, but excludes some of the descendants that have undergone significant changes.
Green algae traditionally excludes the land plants, rendering them a paraphyletic group.
In addition, a paraphyletic group containing primitive forms, the Endeostigmata, was formerly also considered distinct.
Provisionally, all the other junipers are included here, though they form a paraphyletic group.
It is also a close relative of " sphenosuchians ", a paraphyletic group of more basal non-crocodyliform crocodylomorphs.
This classification is rarely used today because Sauria so-defined is a paraphyletic group.
However, Ezcurra ( 2016 ) found that Proterosuchidae was a mostly paraphyletic group of basal archosauriforms.
Algae are a sprawling green or blue-green group of organisms which belong to the Paraphyletic group.

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