Serves as a lookup for taxonomic identification levels, detailing the resolution or uncertainty in identification, such as ‘cf. Family’, ‘cf. Genus’, or ‘cf. Species’.
clarifying comment from Mattias 2026-10-23
Chatted with Phil and you are looking in the correct place:
For cf., in SEAD documentation it is written as “c.f.”, so if you want to search for it that is what needs to be written. For c.f. you have the lookup table tbl_identification_levels, which stores c.f. on different taxa levels (family, genus, species). Then tbl_abundance_ident_levls links this to abundances, and via that to taxa_tree_master.
For sp., spp., ident, and grp you record it in the species field in taxa_tree_master. This creates a “pseudo-species” that then indicates uncertainty.
| identification_level_id | identification_level_name | notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | c.f. Family | Uncertainty at the family level |
| 2 | c.f. Genus | Uncertainty at the genus level |
| 3 | c.f. Species | Uncertainty at the species level |
| 4 | Family | Uncertainty at the family level |
| 5 | Genus | Uncertainty at the genus level |
| 6 | Species | Uncertainty at the species level |