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Taxon identifiers
are identifiers assigned to biological
taxon
by
biological
and
taxonomic databases
for purposes of establishing a point of reference for each catalogued taxon. Assigning a taxon with a permanent identifier such as a string of numbers allows for information such as
taxonomic classification
to be updated without affecting the ability to retrieve or reference the data of the respective taxon. A taxon identifier works in much the same way that a
barcode
is used to retrieve data about an item of interest. When used on Wikipedia, taxon identifiers can be found near the bottom of Wikipedia pages, linking to records on
taxonomic databases
. In many cases, each taxon name in a taxonomic database has a unique identifier, although this is not always the case. (For example, the
International Plant Names Index
regularly has multiple identifiers for a taxon name, often but not always of the form
-1,
-2, etc.)
Taxon identifiers enable researchers to search more easily for pertinent information on the subject of an article, without needing to disambiguate the subject manually. For example, taxon identifiers are used in species articles so that the information in the article can be easily cross-referenced with the popular
Catalogue of Life
database.
More generally, taxon identifiers are a method of creating and maintaining index terms for bibliographical material. The links produced by the
{{
Taxonbar
}}
template on Wikipedia go to taxon information pages of online biological or taxonomic databases. As an example, the Wikipedia Taxonbar information for
Sequoiadendron giganteum
looks like this:
Taxon identifiers
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Wikidata
Q149851
Wikispecies
Sequoiadendron giganteum
BioLib:
2398
Calflora:
7532
CoL
4WSQK
CNPS
2771
Conifers.org:
Sequoiadendron_giganteum
EoL
323361
EPPO
SQUGI
EUNIS
150857
Euro+Med PlantBase:
f104f662-3c18-422e-b7f6-146d6f401cdd
FEIS:
seqgig
FNA
210002083
FoC
210002083
GBIF
2684120
GRIN
33713
iNaturalist
59567
IPNI
677175-1
IRMNG
10453639
ITIS
183438
IUCN
34023
MoBotPF
287324
NatureServe
2.130747
NBN
NHMSYS0000463457
NCBI
99814
NZOR:
2fea3225-7ec4-4801-8281-41c61f4d1a77
Observation.org
126277
Open Tree of Life
810380
PFI:
9499
Plant List
kew-2587860
PLANTS
SEGI2
POWO
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:234727-2
RHS
17257
Tropicos
31300229
WFO
wfo-0000496705
The identifiers listed for
Sequoiadendron giganteum
will link to entries found in the corresponding online databases:
Wikidata
Wikidata
, a collaboratively edited knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Each Wikidata item associated with a taxon holds data such as the taxon identifiers.
ARKive
ARKive
, an archival database of films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species.
FNA
Flora of North America North of Mexico
, a multivolume work describing the native and introduced plants of North America.
FOC
Flora of China
, a scientific publication aimed at describing the plants native or introduced to China.
Eol
Encyclopedia of Life
, a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science
GBIF
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
, an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services
GRIN
Germplasm Resources Information Network
, an online USDA National Genetic Resources Program database for the holdings of all plant germplasm collected by the National Plant Germplasm System
iNaturalist
iNaturalist
, a citizen science project mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe.
IPNI
International Plant Names Index
, a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes
ITIS
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
, an American partnership of federal agencies designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species
IUCN
International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List
, the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species
NCBI
Taxon Browser
from the National Center for Biotechnology Information
Plant List
The Plant List
, a list of botanical names of species of plants created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden
PLANTS
Natural Resources Conservation Service
, a database from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers
Tropicos
Tropicos
, an online botanical database containing taxonomic information on plants, mainly from the
Neotropical realm
(Central and South America)
This is a small subset of available databases, and these links will vary from taxon to taxon depending on its type and the availability of database entries.
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