Tag: taxa

If you’re given a species name of the form genus + specific epithet, does it uniquely identify a particular species level taxon? Nope. In R, playing again with taxa.csv from https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/inaturalist-taxonomy.dwca.zip, provided by iNaturalist: (This reminded me of an old conversation I had on r-sig-mac: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-September/005304.html.) Extracting the non-unique species: Here’s a spreadsheet with the…