[Taxacom] Biodiversity and Species Value

[Jim Croft]

Do I need to remind you of botanists' rule #1 for communicating with
entomologists?

.  move every insect taxonomic rank _down_ one level

This is closely related to the universal rule of communicating with
bioinformaticians:

. move every unit of time _up_ one level

jim

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Stephen Thorpe
<stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> there are something like 1000 species of the ant genus Pheidole, for example, all just
> "minor variations on the same theme", so losing one or two of them is no way near as
> serious as losing a horseshoe crab (again, all other things being equal)

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