TaxonClass

A set of organisms asserted to represent a natural cohesive biological unit.
Equivalent Classes
schema:Taxon
Properties from Taxon
PropertyExpected Typedescription
childTaxon
Text
Taxon
URL
Closest child taxa of the taxon in question.
hasDefinedTerm
A Defined Term contained in this term set.
parentTaxon
URL
Text
Taxon
Closest parent taxon of the taxon in question.
taxonRank
The taxonomic rank of this taxon given preferably as a URI from a controlled vocabulary – typically the ranks from TDWG TaxonRank ontology or equivalent Wikidata URIs.
Properties from Thing
PropertyExpected Typedescription
additionalType
URL
An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
alternateName
Text
An alias for the item.
description
Text
A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription
Text
A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier
The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc.
image
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
name
Text
The name of the item.
potentialAction
Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs
URL
URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf
A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
url
URL
URL of the item.
Instances of Taxon may appear with as a value for the following properties
PropertyOn Typesdescription
childTaxon
Closest child taxa of the taxon in question.
parentTaxon
Closest parent taxon of the taxon in question.
taxonomicRange
The taxonomic grouping of the organism that expresses, encodes, or in some way related to the BioChemEntity.