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What is a taxon?

What is a taxon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (taxonomy) Any of the taxonomic categories, such as phylum or subspecies.
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As with many of the modem Eucopia species, this fossil taxon is characterized by the possession of highly elongate posterior pereiopods.
Such a radical change in the mitochondrial gene arrangement within a closely related taxon has never been observed in other coelomate phyla.
Each taxon represents a single species, except where the number of taxa is given in parentheses.
According to our results, Sclerothorax is nested well within the higher stereospondyls, forming the sister taxon of capitosauroids.
As shown above, using a third taxon to estimate the initial pairwise distances improves their precision.
The proboscis is a synapomorphy of the taxon and is used primarily in prey capture.

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