Candidly, I would love to get rid of the infraspecific rank thing in botany and work with tri- or perhaps even poly- nominals, but history, practice and the code are against it. I don't like to say nice things about zoologists, but I think they got this one right. :) Jim On Friday, November 19, 2010, Gregor Hagedorn <g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com> wrote:
I think it would be useful though to have a canonicalName field that only takes "Genus specificEpithet infraspecificEpithet" and no more.
(I think we need to add the rank string. Same epithet for subsp. and var. is not unusual in Botany/Mycology. Gregor) _______________________________________________ tdwg-content mailing list tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content
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