The legion, in biologicaltaxonomy, is a non-obligatory rank within the Linnaean hierarchy which is subordinate to the class but superordinate to the cohort. It consists of a group of related orders and has been employed in some classifications of birds and mammals. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Look up taxonomy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Linnaean taxonomy classifies living things into a hierarchy, originally starting with kingdoms. ... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Cohort may mean: Cohort (military unit), a Roman legion. ... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... For other meanings of bird, see bird (disambiguation). ... Orders Subclass Monotremata Monotremata Subclass Marsupialia Didelphimorphia Paucituberculata Microbiotheria Dasyuromorphia Peramelemorphia Notoryctemorphia Diprotodontia Subclass Placentalia Xenarthra Dermoptera Desmostylia Scandentia Primates Rodentia Lagomorpha Insectivora Chiroptera Pholidota Carnivora Perissodactyla Artiodactyla Cetacea Afrosoricida Macroscelidea Tubulidentata Hyracoidea Proboscidea Sirenia The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals primarily characterized by the presence of mammary...
Legions may be grouped into superlegions or subdivided into sublegions, and these again into infralegions.
Now the traitor Legions are theoretical entities more than anything, scattered into warbands or empires of various sizes, sometimes battling among themselves yet always seeking revenge against the Imperium that cast them out.
The biology of a member of the Adeptus Astartes is vastly superior to that of a normal human.
The Space Marines were originally divided into 20 vast Legions, each Legion being based on genetic material from one of the original Primarchs.