Topic: Taxon - use of seg. and agg.
Hi all
I'm trying to map some records I've received from a Recorder 6 system into MapMate and amongst which are some mollusc records which have the taxon suffix "seg." I have not seen used before. I have got as far as working out this is used to show a segregate of a wider aggregate group.
For example, I have aggregate and segregate taxa for species:
Carychium minimum agg.
Carychium minimum seg.
Vitrea crystallina agg.
Vitrea crystallina seg.
Would I be right in thinking that the segregate is being used in the same way as sensu stricto? i.e. it segregates a single species?
I know that there is binomial form for each of these species in Recorder 6 as well, so wanted to check that the segregate was not a narrower grouping of species in the wider aggregate.
I appreciate this is not strictly a Recorder 6 related question!
Best wishes
Neil Fletcher
Bucks & Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre