Data Dictionary: ACCDC Observation Records

The following fields of data may be included (and may or may not be populated) in occurrence records.
Text field lengths given as TXT+ are 255 char max. (and may truncate text).

TAXONOMY	type	definition
MCODE	TXT 8	8 character ‘Museum Code’ (1 to 4 = genus, 5 to 8 = sp+ssp)
ELCODE	TXT 10-12	Unique Identifier of taxon1
SCINAME	TXT+	Global Scientific Name of taxon1
COMNAME	TXT+	English Common Name of taxon1
NOMCOMMUN	TXT+	French Common Name

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