Scientific name of a higher taxon

ID taxon_name

DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft

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Scientific name of a taxon above the species rank, a single capitalized Latin word: a kingdom (Animalia), phylum, class (Insecta), order (Hymenoptera), family (Formicidae) or genus (Tetramorium), as in the Darwin Core terms kingdom to genus of GBIF occurrence data. The name of a species (a binomial) is species.

Categories

Scientific, Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste)

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 (2 by field name, 0 by value)

taxonclassorderbyfield field, common/science.yaml
taxonnamebyfield field, common/science.yaml

Supported by tools

metacrafter

Regular expression

^[A-Z][a-z]+$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
Animalia	Kingdom
Arthropoda	Phylum
Hymenoptera	Order
Formicidae	Family
Tetramorium	Genus
Solenopsis geminata invalid	Species: species

Sources

doc: https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_rank

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