[tdwg-content] Taxon Concept dilemma [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 16:13:07 CEST 2010


Excellent summary, Greg!

> We must assume, as Gregor has noted, that in the absence of explicit
> statements to the contrary all taxonomic events are unique ... and if
> they aren't, we simply have two that are the same.

Yes. This turns my vague efforts of gaining an operational perspective
into an actual operationally useful instruction to those who have to
assign IDs. :-) When in doubt, a (potentially) duplicate ID must be
assigned!

Gregor



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