[tdwg-content] An individual identified to a higher group like Order, is still an instance of a species - just a species that is currently unspecified

[Peter DeVries]

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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Pete DeVries
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University of Wisconsin - Madison
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