Climate and Forecast Standard Names
type: ConceptScheme
has top concept: biological_taxon_identifier

biological_taxon_identifier
type: Concept
top concept of: Climate and Forecast Standard Names
is replaced by: biological_taxon_lsid
in scheme: Climate and Forecast Standard Names
source: cf-standard-name-table.html
deprecated: true
definition: "Biological taxon" is a name or other label identifying an organism or a group of organisms as belonging to a unit of classification in a hierarchical taxonomy. The quantity with standard name biological_taxon_identifier is the machine-readable identifier for the taxon registration in either WoRMS (the AphiaID) or ITIS (the taxonomic serial number or TSN), including namespace. The namespace strings are 'aphia:' or 'tsn:'. For example, Calanus finmarchicus is encoded as either 'aphia:104464' or 'tsn:85272'. For the marine domain WoRMS has more complete coverage and so aphia Ids are preferred. See Section 6.1.2 of the CF convention (version 1.8 or later) for information about biological taxon auxiliary coordinate variables.
note: deprecated

biological_taxon_lsid
type: Concept