Term Name: Organism Identifier: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Organism Namespace: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ Label: Organism Definition: The category of information pertaining to a specific instance of an organism (virus, symbiont, individual, colony, group of individuals, population) reliably be known to taxonomically homogeneous.
I see a problem with the "taxonomically homogeneous" since many taxa are not. All obligatory mutualistically symbiontic organisms are excluded (you mention symbiont, but the symbiont is the part of a symbiontic relation, e.g. both the algae taxon and fungus taxon each are a symbiont in a lichen.
Contradict if my German biology is at odds with English.
The problem is, that individual and set are mixed, so that the "homogeneous" appears to apply also to the individual. Proposal:
Definition: The information class pertaining to a specific instance or set of instances of a life form or organism (virus, bacteria, symbiontic life forms, individual, colony, group, population). Sets must reliably be known to taxonomically homogeneous (including obligatory symbiontic associations).
Gregor