[Taxacom] Expressing synonymy as a schematic

[Thierry Bourgoin]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your comments ;-)

You will find something quite similar of this graphical display in my website (FLOW database).
You can have a look to :

http://hemiptera-databases.org/flow/?page=explorer&db=flow&lang=en&card=taxon&rank=species&id464
http://hemiptera-databases.org/flow/?page=explorer&db=flow&lang=en&card=taxon&rank=species&id405
http://hemiptera-databases.org/flow/?page=explorer&db=flow&lang=en&card=taxon&rank=species&id13
http://hemiptera-databases.org/flow/?page=explorer&db=flow&lang=en&card=taxon&rank=species&id731

The tool is unfortunately not fully developed (lake of informatics resources to finish it unfortunately ... ) but as soon as there is no circular taxonomical stories (status revisvisco for instance) it runs more or less. You can also have some fun with the parameters... 
Of course the result depends totally from the data present in the database and might provide wrong or incomplete schemas if the data are incomplete (which is always the case with large databases...).

Best,
Thierry


Le 23 mai 2012 ? 02:27, <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> a ?crit :

> Dear Taxacomers,
> 
> Searching for information on a particular taxon name on the web, I happened upon a nice schematic which I thought well expressed the complex taxonomic and nomenclatural history for a species of nematode, Panagrellus redivivus, on p.23 (Figure 2) of the following paper by Ferris, 2009:
> 
> http://plpnemweb.ucdavis.edu/nemaplex/FerrisPublications/pdf%20files/165Ferris2009.pdf
> 
> (a taxon which has moved through 8 genera and 21 treatments, under a variety of epithets, at last count according to this diagram).
> 
> I was thinking that this is a particularly neat method for expressing such changes through time but was also wondering if readers have other suggestions or examples as well.
> 
> Regards - Tony
> 
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