Organisms (taxa in taxonomic language) in NCBI implicitly relate to a currently accepted name in the taxonomic world, where those taxa have been established in a scientific article. However, many of those taxa have been undergoing a change in their naming history which involves often many variants, from synonyms, the original combination, to misidentifications. Synonymic lists are contained in nomenclators (name services). They allow two essential services: to find out for any given name what the currently accepted name is, and, relevant in this context, the links to the taxonomic treatment via the bibliographic citation, or more recently a persistent idnentifier. This allows to retrieve all the content published on any of the names, and thus to have at once all the published information available. The inclusion of synonyms thus allows to expand the amount of linked data for any of the taxa in NCBI.

Anochetus grandidieri (Ant from Madagascar)

NCBI Taxonomy

ID: 269309

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=269309&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock

Other names:

synonym: Anochetus sp. BLF m2

synonym: Anochetus madecassus

synonym: Anochetus grandidieri Forel, 1891

Name server

for ants: Hymenoptera Name Server

ID 25263

http://hol.osu.edu/index.html?id=25263

other names

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