Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-32744161-20180618131748/@comment-47205-20180618161258

Real-world obsolete, paraphyletic, and polyphyletic taxa can be, and are, often treated the same way that real-world valid monophyletic taxa are. However, a lot of these taxa are being used in a fictitious manner, and therefore should be treated as fictitious taxa: they are fictional taxa given real-world names, essentially. Cytota, for instance, isn't being used for all cellular organisms, or even a large group of them that fits the spirit of the real-world Cytota, but is instead only for animals that resemble members of other kingdoms.