Criterial Classification

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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 Originally proposed by Famous Taxonomer the theory would go on to create a legacy, only recently being outdated by the onset of evolutionary classification.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.

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