Pseudotaxonomic

However, prey are usually assigned to broad taxonomic or pseudotaxonomic categories, which may not allow the subtleties of predator impacts to be interpreted.

Similarly, Crisp & Weston (1993) found patterns of paedomorphosis in Telopea speciosissima to produce artifactual, 'pseudotaxonomic' patterns.

In the absence of a sexual structure, however, these organisms remain in the fungi imperfecti (Deuteromycota)—a pseudotaxonomic repository for organisms with no known sexual state.