Taxa

Taxon entities scaffold this atlas's biological classification above the individual species level: the nested ranks Linnaean taxonomy uses to group species into ever broader kinship, from Domain and Kingdom down through Phylum or Division, Class, Order, Family and Genus. Eight bands hold the atlas's taxon entities, one per rank, assigned by each entity's own place in that hierarchy, already encoded in its own slug prefix. This band names the classification scaffolding itself; the described species sitting at the bottom of it carry their own separate sixteen value grouping by common category, mammal, bird, insect and the rest, recorded on the species type directly rather than through this rank based tree.