Hi Nick,
I'm quite new to diving and immediately love your App. I use it extensively. I also started to add all my critters as far as possible. Thereby I start struggling, because I only can find name, species and category to group and name critters. Normally critters are sorted into an hierarchical system from top to bottom.
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Phylum
- Class
- Order
- Family
- Genus
- Species
Because there are tons of species, most classifications are done by Family + Genus. Fish, corals and others are using a binomial nomenclature, which is a two part naming system developed by Carolus Linnaeus. first half of name is genus, second is species. Because detecting a species is quite hard, often just the family is used.
Using just name, category and species in MacDive makes it quite confusing to me. I will not give a fish or coral a name so far
To group critters even better, it would be great to have at least class, family, genus and species available.
Cheers,
Timo