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Moderated by Edward Vanden Berghe and Mary Kennedy.
names included in species lists that are not true scientific names. Examples include groups of valid taxa, common names, terms such as plankton or jelly, etc |
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Vocabularies >
Non-taxonomic groups
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To start the discussion, the file "non-taxonomic_plankton_terms" contains a selection of non-taxonomic plankton groupings used in some of the datasets submitted to BODC. I propose that we use this file to build up a list of these terms and try to come up with some definitions and, if possible, recommend a consistent mapping to ITIS and WoRMS.