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

# Scientific name of a higher taxon (`taxon_name`)

> **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.

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.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science), Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `Animalia` — Kingdom
- `Arthropoda` — Phylum
- `Hymenoptera` — Order
- `Formicidae` — Family
- `Tetramorium` — Genus
- `Solenopsis geminata` (invalid example) — Species: species

## Metacrafter rules

2 rules: 2 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `taxonclassorderbyfield` (field, `common/science.yaml`)
- `taxonnamebyfield` (field, `common/science.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

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

## Quality

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

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