Collections contain things that do not map nicely to a single taxon name of any (or no) rank. It's not clear to me if this proposal will support those kinds of data or not. A few examples:

Uncertainty: http://arctos.database.museum/guid/KWP:Ento:1703  => This is a Genus Erebia species undetermined.
Composite specimens: http://arctos.database.museum/guid/UAM:Herb:12718 => This is one of those batches/jars
Hybrids: http://arctos.database.museum/guid/UAM:Mamm:3517 => Canis latrans Say, 1823 x Canis lupus familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 (HybridConcept)
Things that aren't taxonomy at all: http://arctos.database.museum/guid/UAM:ES:3405 => This is some other groups vocabulary / standards (Geology)

-D

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Peter DeVries <pete.devries@gmail.com> wrote:

What I would recommend is that you treat a specimen that is identified to an order (Perciformes) with something like the following.

Species => Order Perciformes species undetermined.

The individual is still an instance of a species, however that species has yet to be determined.

What would work best is to have some standard way of writing the green string above.

This would allow the occurrences that are of individuals identified only to the Order Perciformes, to be interpreted as a species that falls somewhere within the Order Perciformes.

- Pete

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