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Terrestrial Organism Selection File (TOS)

The Terrestrial Organism Selection output can be found in the GID file. Each database must format its specification output to match the format of the GID file. One and only one TOS database specification can exist per site within the GID file. There are two parts within the specification, one contains the database owners specific parameters and the other contains the specification parameters below.

    Class (String) - Class of terrestrial organism
    CommonName (String) - Common name of terrestrial organism
    Family (String) - Family of terrestrial organism
    ForagingGuild (String) - Foraging guild of terrestrial organism
    Genus (String) - Genus of terrestrial organism
    Kingdom (String) - Kingdom of terrestrial organism
    NumScientificName (Integer) - Number of scientific names
    Orders (String) - Order of terrestrial organism
    Phylum (String) - Phylum of terrestrial organism
    ScientificName (String) - Genus Species name
    Species (String) - Species of terrestrial organism
    TSN (String) - Organism Taxonomic Serial Number
The minimum specifications from the above list are: ScientificName, CommonName and TSN.



This TOS example was created using the base03 test case. For testing information visit the Frames WikiWiki Testing page.

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