[tdwg-content] Name is species concept thinking

I was looking through the latest DarwinCore and comments related to the TaxonConceptID.

Since the name serves as both a unique identifier and a phylogenetic hypothesis, you are effectively saying that observations labeled

*Aedes triseriatus*

and

*Ochlerotatus triseriatus*

Are separate species concepts, and should therefore be treated as separate things.

i.e. The name is the concept.

Also since there are several name variants for each "species", how do you distinguish which of these nameID's are the same species and which are different?

- Pete

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