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Tricky Aspects Of Taxonomic Data
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+ !!! Interesting things we encountered in the ant data sets
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+ !! sp. and its kin
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+ sp., sp-01, undet., etc. all mean "some species in this genus"
+ So, Formica sp. means, some Formica. Often, a data set will have
+ sp-01, sp-02, sp-03. These are separate collections of examples of the genus,
+ but it doesn't necessarily imply that sp-01 and sp-02 are different species. It's unclear.
+ Sometimes the species epithet is left out entirely, which is another version of sp.
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+ !! spp.
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+ This means 'all species in this genus.' It appears in the data describing
+ the symbiotic relations in ants. For example, we have this:
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+ Oxyepoecus inquilina isInquilinismParasiteOf Solenopsis spp.
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+ Which means that Oxyepoecus inquilina can be a parasite on any type of Solenopsis. Many interesting inference issues arise from this type of proposition.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award 0225676. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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