Thread:Dinoman972/@comment-32744161-20180528145333/@comment-24941009-20180531193439

I already made those changes. Most were obvious, but I explained some of them. And also, Taxonomy is more complex than what you've defined. It prioritizes overall morphology, such as number of limbs and part ordenation, while you are using the lesser details, such as coloration and some specific parts (proboscides), as criteria for taxa. Although it might work in families, it makes no sense to make creatures share genera based on these minor features. It's like classifying elephants and butterflies in the same genus for having proboscides (trust me, that was just a coincidence).

Additionally, the phenomenon you just described is a thing in real life: it's called convergent evolution, and it makes completely distant animals to develop similar adaptations to survive, sometimes making them extremely similar. Examples of convergent evolution are the wings of bats and those of the dinosaur Yi qi, or the overall appearance similarities between pangolins and armadillos. It doesn't matter that much in the wiki's Taxonomy project, though, since creatures are classified by morphology rather than evolutionary history. But just to let you know that sharing sone traits doesn't always mean being related.