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CatalogueOfLife
The Catalogue of Life
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Initial imports from sources relevant to nomenclature should be considered. Please suggest relevant nomenclatural sources as comments in this issue. Key information is the name with authorship, the literature reference...
Define clear rules what exactly makes a name the same name. A scientific name in the sense of the Clearinghouse of CoL+ has an identity and a unique, stable identifier....
Especially suprageneric monomials can be used at varies ranks. - Should these be considered different names in the nomenclatural sense or is that merely a different taxonomic usage of the...
Some resources, e.g. the Reptile DB, contain many [chresonyms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chresonym) for a name which the CoL would like to exclude. Manually flagging these names is very time consuming and not really...
Both the zoological and botanical code maintain a list of the officially conserved, sanctioned, supressed or rejected names. These official resources should be included in the nomenclature of the system....