distinguish between phenon and taxon
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A group of organisms which is recognized simply on the basis of similarity of characteristics, regardless of any biological interaction or genetic relatedness.
In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
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Phenon:
A group of organism that are recognized just by their characters regardless of biological interactions.
Phenon is a method of species recognition that was originated back in 1940s.
Taxon:
The plural form of Taxa that was emerged back in 1920s
Taxon is a taxonomy group of any rank which can be a family, a species or a class.
The taxonomical groups are group, order, class, subclass, genus, species
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