Basic Examples (2) 

Visualize a taxonomy tree of the lion species:

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Visualize a taxonomy tree of a list of animal and a plant species:

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Scope (1) 

TaxonomyTree can visualize a taxonomic tree of entities of different taxonomic ranks. For example the single-entity taxonomy of the corona virus family:

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Options (3) 

The "Depth" option determines the number of taxonomic levels between the root- and the argument species taxon.

Show available sub-species at depth 1:

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TaxonomyTree accepts the visualization options of a Tree. Higher tree-depths can benefit from a left-oriented TreeLayout and a larger AspectRatio:

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TaxonomicSpecies entities are elements of the taxonomy tree and can be visualized instead of their CommonName using this Tree option:

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Applications (3) 

The complete human-to-apes lineage can be visualized by TaxonomyTree with a "Depth" setting of 5, starting with the species "homo sapiens":

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The taxonomy tree of a list of 18 different berry species reveals the 6 different plant orders in which they are categorized:

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TaxonomyTree replaced the two edges connecting the "rosids" sub-class to "flowering plants" class and "Streptophytina" sub-phylum, by one edge to the "flowering plants" class. The error originated in the loganberry taxonomic sequence. These errors will break the taxonomy tree when left unaddressed.

Visualize the taxonomy tree of a total of 5 random species, one per kingdom:

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Possible Issues (6) 

TaxonomyTree only supports TaxonomicSpecies entities:

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A list of entities of length one is not valid:

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A "Depth" option value that is not an integer larger than 1, is not valid:

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The "Depth" option will be ignored by TaxonomyTree when its argument is a list of entities:

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If the "Depth" option for a single-entity TaxonomyTree results in a tree of a size of more than 10,000 Elements, the Entity Framework may fail to download all values and will show an error message: . The tree size at which this download error may occur may vary by species. The error can be prevented by choosing a lower value for the “Depth” option.

TaxonomyTree will automatically correct errors in the taxonomic sequence. In some cases, this may result in an orphan taxon. For example:

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The orphan taxon issue will be resolved by setting a higher "Depth" value.

Neat Examples (3) 

Exploration of a species' taxonomy may start with a single entity. For example, the entire shark species taxonomy can be visualized by TaxonomyTree with a Depth setting of 7, commencing with the "great white shark" entity:

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TaxonomyTree preserves the entities in the tree, which allows one to select a subtree using a common name:

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From the subtree, the entity objects can be copied to access their properties:

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