TaxonomicDescriptionClass
Description of Taxon: Brief description, Full description, Identification keys and Ancillary Data.
##Atomized branch##
Brief description, presented in a simple technical language, to distinguish the species from other close or similar ones.
Class: [NormalString] (https://github.com/tdwg/PlinianCore/wiki/NormalString)
Complete and detailed account of the taxonomic and systematic characters, i.e. those that define and allow to recognize an organism.
Class: [FullDescriptionClass] (https://github.com/tdwg/PlinianCore/wiki/FullDescriptionClass)
Tool for the identification of organisms, comprising a series of steps, each of which represents a question about one or more characters of the organism. Each step offers multiple alternatives, choosing one of them will lead us to the next step until reaching, finally, the name of the organism. Most of the keys only offer two alternatives, the so called dichotomous keys. A taxon can include an identification key for the subordinate taxa.
e.g. The register of a genre will include the keys of the species shown in this genre, and the register of a species will include the keys of infraspecific ranks (in the case of plants: subspecies, variety, forms...).
Class: IdentificationKeysClass
##Unstructured branch##
TaxonomicDescription element in text block format.
Class: NormalString
Ancillary information of the TaxonomicDescriptionUnstructured element.
Class: [AncillaryDataClass] (https://github.com/tdwg/PlinianCore/wiki/AncillaryDataClass)
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