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Taxon (Type)

Version: 1.0-RELEASE (2023-05-01)

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Key to specification table
Property Expected Type Description
Properties from Taxon
alternateScientificName TaxonName  or
Text  or
URL 
A TaxonName representing a scientific name, with authorship and date information if known, of a synonym of the currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) name.
childTaxon Taxon  or
Text  or
URL 
Closest child taxa of the taxon in question.
Inverse property: parentTaxon.
parentTaxon Taxon  or
Text  or
URL 
Closest parent taxon of the taxon in question.
Inverse property: childTaxon.
scientificName TaxonName  or
Text  or
URL 
A TaxonName representing the currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) name for that taxon.
taxonRank PropertyValue  or
Text  or
URL 
The taxonomic rank of this taxon given preferably as a URI from a controlled vocabulary – (typically the ranks from TDWG TaxonRank ontology or equivalent Wikidata URIs).
Properties from Thing
additionalType URL  An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
alternateName Text  An alias for the item.
description Text  A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription Text  A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier PropertyValue  or
Text  or
URL 
The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
image ImageObject  or
URL 
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage CreativeWork  or
URL 
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
Inverse property: mainEntity.
name Text  The name of the item.
potentialAction Action  Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs URL  URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf CreativeWork  or
Event 
A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
Inverse property: about.
url URL  URL of the item.
Properties from Darwin Core
dwc:vernacularName Text  A vernacular (common) name of the taxon.