I was looking through the latest DarwinCore and comments related to the TaxonConceptID.<div><br></div><div>Since the name serves as both a unique identifier and a phylogenetic hypothesis, you are effectively saying that observations labeled </div>
<div><br></div><div><i>Aedes triseriatus</i></div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div><i>Ochlerotatus triseriatus</i> </div><div><br></div><div>Are separate species concepts, and should therefore be treated as separate things.</div>
<div><br></div><div>i.e. The name is the concept.</div><div><br></div><div>Also since there are several name variants for each &quot;species&quot;, how do you distinguish which of these nameID&#39;s are the same species and which are different?</div>
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