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Link to the Containing Group

On a real Tree of Life page, this link would have taken you to the page for the immediately Containing Group.

The page of the containing group is the page that shows your group as one of the terminal taxa in its tree or taxon list. For example, in the piece of the Tree shown below, Aliopinae is the containing group for Aliopo, Titanotila, and Eromaba, and Aliopo is the containing group for the four species of Aliopo:

For leaf pages, the page for the immediately containing group may be the page for the genus or the page for the relevant species group (for an example of this, see the pages for the species of Bembidion).


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