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informal taxonomic ranks: how to model and deal with them #26

Open myrmoteras opened 2 years ago

myrmoteras commented 2 years ago

Informal ranks in taxonomy occur at various taxonomic ranks, for example species -> species groups, genus -> genus group.

We do currently not model them, so they are either left aside, or cause confusion, like this one https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/html/E656241B1A4DFFBF28D726DC99F0FD5F

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Phylogenomic Delimitation of Morphologically Cryptic Species in Globetrotting Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species Complexes https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixab027

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We need to find a solution to this.