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Usage
This template formats taxonomic name links. If it is used for a taxonomic name for which Wiktionary has an entry, it links to that entry along with a link to the Wikispecies page for that taxon. If not, only Wikispecies is linked to.

It requires a parameter to indicate what level the taxon is, e.g., family, tribe, genus, species, or epithet – including for binomial names.

Parameters

 * Numbered parameters
 * 1
 * The taxon.


 * 2
 * The level (rank) of the taxon: family, tribe , genus , subgenus , section , subsection , species , subspecies , variety , form , forma ; clade , informal group , and nothospecies should be specified, including for binomial names.


 * 3
 * An optional parameter for an alternative display name, the default being parameter 1 with the correct italicization (for genera and sub-generic taxa). But see i below.


 * i
 * Indicates that the term should appear entirely in italics, no matter what the built-in logic of italicization says. This is principally relevant for virus taxa, which are all supposed to appear in italics.