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Tri-criterial classification is a theory of taxonomic classification of organisms now widely considered obsolete which posed that organisms may be classified according to three criteria; body plan, historic niche, and diet. Originally proposed by Famous Taxonomer the theory would go on to create a legacy, only recently being outdated by the onset of evolutionary classification.
History
Criterion
Tri-criterial classification organizes organisms into groups based off of their
Diet
- Avores, organisms which do not consume biological matter.
- Consumers, which can be split into two groups;
- Avovores, organisms which consume avoric organisms;
- Bionivores, organisms which consume non-animate biological matter.
- Carnivores, organisms which consume consumers.
Body Plan
- Plants, organisms which do not move.
- Rooted, organisms which attach to objects using sub-surface roots.
- Sessile, organisms which attach to objects at the surface.
- Animals, organisms which do move.
- Quadrupeds, organisms which use 4 limbs for locomotion.
- Bipeds, organisms which use 2 limbs for locomotion.
- Scuttlers, organisms which use 5 or more limbs for locomotion.
- Serpents, organisms which use no limbs for locomotion.
Niche
- Expansionists, organisms which originally served to autonomously expand territory.
- Defenders, organisms which originally served to autonomously defend territory.
- Offenders, organisms which originally served to autonomously attack territory.
- Scouts, organisms which originally served to gauge the safety of a territory.
- Disruptors, organisms which originally snuck into opposing territories as agents of chaos.
- Symbionts, organisms which function by pairing closely with other organisms.
- Devastator, organisms specializing in heavy artillery, originally functioned to cause mass destruction.
Significance
Tri-criterial classification is the first widely accepted taxonomic classification of organisms and changed many widely held beliefs and perceptions regarding flora and fauna.