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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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Each taxon represents a single species, except where the number of taxa is given in parentheses.
As with many of the modem Eucopia species, this fossil taxon is characterized by the possession of highly elongate posterior pereiopods.
The second most common taxon was Acarina, which was most common in pond-side arrays.
All pairwise sequence alignments were colinear, that is, blocks were sequential in nucleotide position for each taxon and were nonoverlapping.
According to our results, Sclerothorax is nested well within the higher stereospondyls, forming the sister taxon of capitosauroids.
The proboscis is a synapomorphy of the taxon and is used primarily in prey capture.

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