Element Description: Valid Distribution Flag

A flag ("true" or "false") that indicates whether the locality information represents a valid distribution occurrence for a specimen. Specimens taken from captivity and showing the captive location should use the value "false".

Comments

Use the space below to make comments about this page. -- StephenLong - 24 Aug 2006

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Posted by: Charles Lapham Date: 30 September 2005, 08:11 AM

There ia a data type conflict. In the schema it is boolean and in the documentation it is text, I would change the documentation.

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