---
id: "dwc_taxonomic_status"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 85
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/dwc_taxonomic_status"
---

# Darwin Core taxonomic status (`dwc_taxonomic_status`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `ACCEPTED` — GBIF occurrence
- `SYNONYM` — GBIF occurrence
- `heterotypicSynonym` — Darwin Core vocabulary
- `VALID` (invalid example)

## Metacrafter rules

2 rules: 1 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `dwctaxonomicstatusknown` (field, `common/science.yaml`)
- `dwctaxonomicstatusvalue` (data, `common/science.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- doc: <https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:taxonomicStatus>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Core>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/dwc_taxonomic_status.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/science/dwc_taxonomic_status.yaml>