Tree of Life (taxonomically tagged living creatures)

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About Tree of Life (taxonomically tagged living creatures)

A place for photographs of living things, tagged with the taxonomic names from the Tree of Life. By placing a photo in the pool you also give permission for other members to add taxonomy tags.

Photo Pool Rules

Please only contribute photographs of living organisms, whether animals, plants, fungi, or microscopic.

One species per photo: The picture should have as its main focus a particular organism, or a group of organisms of the same species.

One photo per species: Only add a photo of a species already represented in the pool if you think your photograph is better. In that case start a discussion thread pointing out your addition out so that as a group we can decide which photograph to keep. The admins will delete the less favoured photograph.

Beginner Guidelines for Description and Tagging

Add tags to any photo in the pool with anything you know about the organism, its name or general type, whether common name or formal Latin name.

Optional Advanced Guidelines for Description and Tagging

Find the lowest down group page on Tree of Life web site that you think the organism belongs to. Add a link to that page in the description of the photograph (or in a comment if you are not the owner of the photograph). A simple way to do this is to add the text [<a href="http://tolweb.org/Group">Group</a>], replacing Group with the group name. So for example if all you know is that the organism is some type of mammal you can add [<a href="http://tolweb.org/Mammalia">Mammalia</a>] which will appear as [Mammalia].

Add taxonomy tags to your photograph, or to photographs of others if they have have allowed tagging. The standard we use here are the names of groups that have separate pages in the Tree of Life web site. For example for a mammal:
(1) Go to the mammal page on the Tree of life to find the group name which is 'Mammalia' in this example and add this as a tag to the photograph.
(2) Look at the containing groups on the right of the tree of life page and add tags for all those groups, which for this mammals example would be 'Therapsida Synapsida Amniota "Terrestrial Vertebrates" Sarcopterygii Gnathostomata Vertebrata Craniata Chordata Deuterostomia Bilateria Animals Eukaryotes "Life on Earth"'. Remember to put quotes around the tags that contain spaces. An easy way to do this is to copy-paste the containing group list from your browser into a text editor like Notepad and edit it so that all the group names are on one line. Then copy-paste that into the "Add a tag" on the photo.

http://eamonn.org/tol.html