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collective group (medicine)


collective group
<zoology> An aggregate of related species of which the generic position is uncertain. According to the Code, for the sake of taxonomic convenience, may be treated as a genus.

Such a collective group does not require a type species. Assignment to a collective group is a temporary, convenient, identifying label.