Developer advice - what term to use for a uninomial?

[kehh]

Hi, I know DwC is a data exchange format but I'm trying to implement a name management in a system and wanted to try to use the correct term for a property.

The system stores parent names as adjacency lists (using a parent_id field) and also has a taxonRank property for the current rank of the name.

The property I'm looking to add is a uninomial'and that would be used to calculate the scientificName by using the current taxonRank and parent names.

The TDWG ontology has:

• nameComplete (scientificName without any authority)
• uninomial (A single name without authority down to the level of genus)

There's also the proposed dwc term genericName which might fill this role

I'm imagining the user enters a reference to the parent name, the taxon rank and this uninomial and from there you can calculate what all of the other ranks fields contain.

So:

genus	specificEpithet	infraspecificEpithet	scientificNameAuthorship
Macropus			Shaw, 1790
Macropus	fulginosus		(Desmarest, 1817)
Macropus fulginosus	melanops	Gould, 1842

would be captured as:

parent_id	id	uninomial	taxonRank	scientificNameAuthorship
	1	Macropus	genus	Shaw, 1790
1	2	fulginosus	species	(Desmarest, 1817)
2	3	melanops	subspecies	Gould, 1842

I'm aware this gets complicated with subgenera and multiple infraspecific ranks below species.

So my question is 'What should I call this field for minimal user confusion" (It's handy to point to / reuse the DwC definitions / labels for fields to explain how they are used)