Examples of Paraphyletic

May 13, 2024 | by Bloom Code Studio

Prokaryotes are one of the paraphyletic groupings as it excludes the eukaryotes being a distant group. This distinction was given by the french biologist Edouard Chatton in 1937.
In the plant kingdom of classification, dicotyledons are referred to as a paraphyletic group which excludes the monocotyledons. Phylogenetic studies have shown that monocots are developed from the dicot ancestor, thus excluding monocots from dicots making it a paraphyletic group.
In the animal kingdom, the order Artiodactyla (animals with even-toed ungulates like camels, pigs, hippopotamuses, etc.) is considered a paraphyletic group as it does not include Cetaceans (dolphins, whales, etc).
Bony fishes (Osteichthyes) can be referred to as paraphyletic when ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) and lungfishes (Sarcoptrygii) are only included in the group.
The ‘wasps’ are put into the paraphyletic category which includes narrow-waisted organisms from the Apocrita superorder without including families of ants and bees.

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