Datatypes

Darwin Core taxonomic status

ID dwc_taxonomic_status

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Status of a scientific name in a taxonomy (Darwin Core term taxonomicStatus): accepted, synonym (with its homotypic, heterotypic and pro parte kinds), doubtful or misapplied. GBIF writes the values of its vocabulary in upper case with underscores (ACCEPTED, HETEROTYPIC_SYNONYM).

Parent datatype

Category category

Categories

Scientific

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

Quality

85/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation

Metacrafter rules

2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)

• dwctaxonomicstatusknown field, common/science.yaml
• dwctaxonomicstatusvalue data, common/science.yaml

Supported by tools

metacrafter

Regular expression

^(?:ACCEPTED|SYNONYM|DOUBTFUL|HETEROTYPIC_SYNONYM|HOMOTYPIC_SYNONYM|PROPARTE_SYNONYM|MISAPPLIED|accepted|synonym|doubtful|heterotypicSynonym|homotypicSynonym|proparteSynonym|misapplied|Accepted|Synonym|Doubtful)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Sources

• doc: https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:taxonomicStatus
• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Core

Use this record

• Page URL: https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/dwc_taxonomic_status
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/science/dwc_taxonomic_status.yaml on GitHub