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Although taxa are commonly regarded as established entities, they actually represent hypotheses on the distribution of natural biological variation and may change their status as new systematic knowledge becomes available. A long-standing problem affecting systematics and taxonomy, with important consequences for other biological disciplines, is that a binomial itself conveys no information about the strength of the taxonomic hypothesis it represents. Here, we introduce the concept of a standardized heuristic index, named Turrill\u2019s Omega Index (TOI), to estimate the degree of support for a taxonomic hypothesis. Turrill\u2019s Omega Index is a single numerical value calculated by integrating four macro-categories of comparative data: Phenotype, Genealogy, Isolation, and Geography-Ecology. 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