[tcs-lc] Incertae Sedis, and broader issues

Nozomi Ytow nozomi at biol.tsukuba.ac.jp
Mon Sep 19 01:35:22 PDT 2005


Rich,

> Ytow:
> Incertae sedis is whatever a taxonomist says it is -- i.e., if an author
> uses it in a publication, then capture that information, regardless of the
> author's meaning. [Do I have this right, James?]

I'd like to add that incertae sedis is a kind of hierachical
relationship between TaxonCocnepts of different ranks, although one of
these TaxonConcepts may or may not exist in the source databases
depending on scope of the databse (and query?).

Cheers,
JMS


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