Taxa
Taxa
Summary
Taxa - Roy Lowry's PPT
presentation
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[Note, this spreadsheet, due to its size, is in MS Excel 2007 XLSX
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| Issue |
WOD 05 Taxa Codes |
| Scope |
Bacterioplankton, phytoplankton, protists, zooplankton,
ichthyoplankton, plankton biomass |
| Number of Taxa Coded |
99,700 |
| Codes Used |
- ITIS codes are the principal index, when available
- When ITIS codes are not yet available, the records are tagged ITIS
WAIT and the ITIS code is a negative number (presumably a transaction log
item number)
- Biological Grouping Codes are supplied for most taxa, consisting of
8-digit codes, developed in-house by O'Brien in 2001; ideally, animals
within any higher-level taxonomic groups (i.e. Order, et supra) can be
identified, as a group, by the digital sequences within these
codes.
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| Content Governance |
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Primary Standards for Consideration
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WOD - Table includes some ITIS codes, for reference - From
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD05/codes05.html
Additional Standards for Consideration
[None at this time]
References
- ITIS - Incorporates old
NODC names/codes
- Species 2000 -
Incorporates ITIS
- Global Biodiversity
Information Facility (GBIF) - Biogeographic facility that incorporates
Species 2000 names
- World Register of
Marine Species (WoRMS) - "...an authoritative list of names of all marine
species globally, ever published.
WoRMS is a contribution to Species2000 and the Catalogue of Life, and will
serve as the taxonomic backbone of OBIS." WoRMS is currently a
hyper-database, called APHIA, linking to 16 global and regional marine species
databases. It is a valuable source of primary identification
information. No APHIA-wide index system exists to provide data managers
with a direct means of coding marine observations.
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