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[gfish]

I just spent about 45 minutes working out the full taxonomic classification of a steam-powered scavenger bird for a story which I might not even write and which would never include this detail anyway. I'm not sure it was a very good use of my time, but it sure was fun.

Coal Vulture, Machinae Noous Aves Accipitriformes Cathartidae Vultur Anthrax

V. anthrax is such a great binomial name. And given what a horrible pest these things would be, it's very fitting.

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Interesting, what's the setting? I ask because biology is already starting to outgrow Linnaean taxonomy in the real world, and it would be even less apt to the phylogeny of built machines, which would be much more like a DAG than a tree.