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Family (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is 1) a rank or 2) a taxon in that rank. |
| | Family, as a rank intermediate between order and genus, is a relatively recent invention. |
| | In zoology, the family as a rank intermediate between order and genus was introduced by Pierre André Latreille in his Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel (1796). |
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