A vocabulary of taxonomic ranks (species, family, phylum, etc)

Prefix

taxrank

Preferred Prefix

TAXRANK

Keywords

life science obo ontology taxon rank taxonomic classification taxonomy

Version

2025-09-24

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Publications

2013 The vertebrate taxonomy ontology: a framework for reasoning across model organism and species phenotypes

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Taxonomic rank vocabulary should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000001   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Taxonomic rank vocabulary should match this regular expression:
^TAXRANK:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

TAXRANK:0000001

Pattern for RDF URIs

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TAXRANK_$1

Example RDF URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TAXRANK_0000001

Contact

Jim Balhoff   0000-0002-8688-6599   balhoff

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (1)

NFDI4Biodiversity Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 11 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0000001 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Taxonomic rank vocabulary. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.