Allow critters categorisation by hierarchical system
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:54 pm
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
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