alpha taxonomy

Noun

 * 1) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming living things.

Usage notes

 * A retronym, this is used in those cases where the word taxonomy may be ambiguous, as follows:
 * where the word is (also) used in the (broader) sense of a classification in a hierarchical system; the synonym  is also occasionally used, for the same reason.
 * where the word is used in the sense of cladistically evaluating DNA data only.