Non-monophyletic active taxa on iNaturalist (apart from hybrids)
These taxa do not consist of an organism and all its descendants. Most of them consist of a clade with one or more descendant clades excluded (paraphyly). Others consist of one or more clades that independently evolved similar traits (polyphyly).
Hybrid taxa are polyphyletic, but I exclude them from this list because it is impractical to avoid this polyphyly. Also, hybrid taxa are obvious.
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Polyphyletic, as it includes all eupelycosaurs except [mammals](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/40151-Mammalia) and [dicynodonts](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/703470-Dicynodontia). But then it... More
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Paraphyletic: Includes the False Gharial but not the Gharial. The False Gharial and Gharial are in fact sister to each other.
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Paraphyletic: Excludes Eutheria. But monotremes are monophyletic.
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Paraphyletic: This subspecies is not actually the Bengal Tiger, it is the Southern Continental Tiger. It is paraphyletic because the Amur Tiger originated from it.
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Paraphyletic: Excludes jawed vertebrates. Note however, that Cyclostomi is monophyletic.
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Paraphyletic: Lungfish form a clade with tetrapods, Rhipidistia. Coelacanths are not part of this. Lobe-finned fishes are therefore paraphyletic.
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Polyphyletic: Apparently a wastebasket taxon, so likely polyphyletic.
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Paraphyletic: Plantae is paraphyletic due to Picozoa being excluded and put in Chromista instead.
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Paraphyletic: Some populations closer to [*T. maculatum*](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/169993-Trillium-maculatum)
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Paraphyletic: Probably paraphyletic. Being a protozoan seems to be the ancestral state for eukaryotes.
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Paraphyletic: This seems to be a paraphyletic group including Choanoflagellatea along with some other organisms, some being fungi or related. But the sister clade to Choanoflagellatea is actually A... More
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Polyphyletic due to the inclusion of Picozoa, a plant phylum. If Picozoa wasn't in Chromista, Chromista would be paraphyletic. Then if Cryptista, a close relative of plants, wasn't included, Chromi... More
