Taxa Merging Discussion

Introduction

The main goal of this topic is to identify, in a formal way, some critical characteristics for describing species coming from different data sources, in order to understand when two entries refer to the same one. Such identification task is not trivial because of the deep differences in the nomenclature protocols which are followed in different areas of biology. Nomenclature can vary moving from Zoology to Botany and Bacteriology.

This page has the daring scope of investigating the margins for building a merging algorithm which solves the above issue, as an automatic solution has never been found up to now.