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    Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Published 29 October 2020 Size: 170 KB Referencing Hub media

    This image represents tuatara classification. It begins with the broadest, most inclusive taxon (group) and moves through subdivisions until it reaches species – the smallest and most exclusive taxon.

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      Tuatara

      New Zealand’s endemic tuatara is a very unusual animal. They are the only living representative of a group of reptiles known as Rhynchocephalia (sometimes known in the past as Sphenodontia) that ...

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      Classification system

      In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus published a system for classifying living things, which has been developed into the modern classification system. People have always given names to things that ...

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