dwc:higherClassification

A term from the Darwin Core standard:

A list (concatenated and separated) of taxa names terminating at the rank immediately superior to the referenced dwc:Taxon.

Notes

Recommended best practice is to separate the values in a list with space vertical bar space ( | ), with terms in order from the highest taxonomic rank to the lowest.

Examples

  • Plantae | Tracheophyta | Magnoliopsida | Ranunculales | Ranunculaceae | Ranunculus
  • Animalia
  • Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Mammalia | Theria | Eutheria | Rodentia | Hystricognatha | Hystricognathi | Ctenomyidae | Ctenomyini | Ctenomys

Reference

  1. Wieczorek J., Bloom D., Guralnick R., Blum S., Döring M., Giovanni R. et al. 2012 Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLOS ONE. Vol. 7, (1) p. e29715. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029715

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Label

higherClassification

EUPH UID

[0.0.HGHRC766]

IRI

http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/higherClassification

EUPH IRI

https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/vocabulary/descriptors/0.0.HGHRC766

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Published

2025-01-24

Updated

2025-01-24
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dwc

Class

Higher Classification

Dependencies

dwc:Taxon
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