Topic: Using the Organism Table in Recorder
I don't know if this is a UKSI issue, or Recorder6
I've been trying to use the Organism table to sort some data, but the SORT_ORDER column confuses me - I assumed it would sort all the taxa into an 'approved' taxonomic order, but the order it produces is not immediately obvious:
For most taxa, the above is true, but ...
* in the sample I'm working on the highest Sort Order is a turbellarian worm (Monocelis lineata) followed by a fish (Greek Lamprey, Caspiomyzon hellenicus) which are above the Mammals and not near any other fish or Turbellaria
* many algae appear between the liverworts and the mosses
* Metzgeria pubescens (a moss) is in the taxonomic order with Metzgeria alba & M. gagei (both sea-snails) - this is obviously wrong!
Craig
Staffordshire Ecological Record