Folksonomy is unrelated to folk taxonomy, a cultural practice that has been widely documented in anthropological and folkloristic work.

Still, there's a certain wisdom to folk taxonomy in this case, because gulls have followed a very different evolutionary path from Darwin's famous finches.

It can be described as more of a folk taxonomy than a taxonomy.

Historians of botany trace the origins of botanical classification with folk taxonomy and ancient Greece.

A folk taxonomy is a vernacular naming system, and can be contrasted with scientific taxonomy.

Critics of the concept of "race" in humans argue that race is a folk taxonomy rather than a scientific classification.

Collections of tags created by many users within a single system may be referred to as "folksonomies" (i.e., folk taxonomies).

This modern system evolved from the folk taxonomy of pre-history.

Unlike scientific taxonomy, folk taxonomies serve many purposes.

A single all-inclusive name rarely used in folk taxonomies but loosely equivalent to an original living thing, a "common ancestor"