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Bring back the taxonomic context #160

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Original Issue reported by Project Member Reported by john.t...@austmus.gov.au, 
Jul 9, 2012 - https://code.google.com/p/ala-bie/issues/detail?id=374

Project Member Reported by john.tann@austmus.gov.au, Jul 9, 2012 
With the new species page we see a breadcrumb trail which gives broad 
navigation of the web site.
What we have lost is the taxonomic hierarchy which put the species we were 
looking at into a taxonomic context.

Of course, if we jump to the CLASSIFICATION tab, we get the full scientific 
classification, which is a useful and important reference, but an overkill (and 
too much information) for quickly informing the family, order, class and so on.

The linked taxonomic hierarchy also gave a straightforward way to easily jump 
to a higher taxonomy, and answer obvious questions like: What other species are 
in this genus (or family, order, class ...)? Being one click away you could 
readily go back. Once you are more than a couple of clicks away, going back is 
not so trivial.
For example, for Murray Cod Maccullochella peelii, 
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Maccullochella+peelii
To find out what other species of Maccullochella look like, I need to go: 
CLASSIFICATION / Maccullochella / scroll up (because we have lost the top of 
the page) / OVERVIEW   and maybe also GALLERY (ie 3 or 4 clicks and a scroll)

The problem with the breadcrumb trail is that it is unhelpful. Those who are 
looking for particular species do not need to go to the Iconic flora & fauna 
page – there is a search bar on each page. Those who need Iconic flora & 
fauna can get to that page from the SPECIES tab under the header.

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by moyesyside on 8 Aug 2013 at 11:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
August 2013: still wanted
A taxonomic line that had the major classifications would be ok. For a quick 
view we don't need all the sub-classes, something like kingdom, phylum, class, 
order, family, genus, species would be fine.

Original comment by johntan...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2013 at 8:43