App/taxon name/batch load

Format to upload

Use a tab delimited text file.

So far the line breaks tested are Mac and UNIX. Not sure if windows line breaks work.

Table

Use one name per line.

Columns are name (required), author, year.

Results will display after loading and you will be asked to confirm before they are incorporated to your tables. During confirmation individual names can be omitted or updated by checking/unchecking boxes.

Only one single parent taxon can be specified, e.g., you need to do a separate batch load of species for each genus.

Duplicate names (matching name only) under the same parent will not be added, you can do this manually though.

Parentheses

One can add parentheses to (author, year):

A) Automatically in the batch load: by including them around only the (author). Note that author is a free text rather than a table field, so one is not creating (Author) and Author as separate entries.

OR

B) Load name, then edit and provide a original genus name that is different from the current parent.