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Because taxonomy is a flexible scientific area, wikispecies needs to be able to make changes quickly. For this we rely heavily on taxon-templates. Using templates all the way down to genus level is a necessity to keep wikispecies flexible. Without templates, every page gets data hard-coded into its pages, and when taxonomical changes take place, every single page needs to be changed. When templates are used, a single change to the template, should be sufficient to affect all pages using it.
How it works. Imagine we have this tree:
Main Page
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Divisio: Glomeromycota
Classis: Glomeromycetes
Ordo: Glomerales
Familia: Glomeraceae
Genus: Glomus
Species: Glomus aggregatum
Making this tree flexible we use templates on each level.
Template:Main Page
__NOTOC__ [[Main Page]] <br />
(The __NOTOC__ prevents the automatic creation of a Table Of Contents)
Template:Eukaryota
{{Main Page}}
Superregnum: [[Eukaryota]] <br />
Template:Fungi
{{Eukaryota}}
Regnum: [[Fungi]] <br />
Template:Glomeromycota
{{Fungi}}
Divisio: [[Glomeromycota]] <br />
Template:Glomeromycetes
{{Glomeromycota}}
Classis: [[Glomeromycetes]] <br />
Template:Glomerales
{{Glomeromycetes}}
Ordo: [[Glomerales]] <br />
Template:Glomeraceae
{{Glomerales}}
Familia: {{fbr|Glomeraceae}}
Template:Glomus
{{Glomeraceae}}
Genus: {{gbr|Glomus}}
When constructing a page, one would only have to call its parent template, and construct a list of its children.
Besides the important taxon-templates, there's a whole range of other templates that can make life easier. Take a look at Wikispecies:Templates, for a list of templates. Use the templates at will, and discuss why you added the template, on the talk page of the same taxon.
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