{ "model": { "rank": 4657, "code": "thing-q150866", "model_id": "vr.tr.deuterostome", "name": "deuterostome", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognize a deuterostome through evidenced taxonomic placement, interpret lineage-dependent traits, and route biological decisions to the appropriate descendant taxon or individual.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q150866/", "tier": 2, "score": 73, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 73, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q150866", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150866", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:43:46Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087e8-747e-7cc0-a3dd-146f7c4eb030\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[Primary research](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33741592/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "higher taxon | descendant taxon | population | individual | specimen", "why_it_matters": "Prevents assigning individual condition or species conservation status to the whole group." }, { "name": "Taxonomic treatment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named classification or phylogenetic treatment with publication date or version and retrievable reference", "why_it_matters": "Makes membership reproducible when treatments disagree about rank or included lineages." }, { "name": "Membership assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported under cited treatment | provisional | disputed | excluded | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates confirmed placement from resemblance and unresolved evolutionary hypotheses." }, { "name": "Assigned lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Chordata | Echinodermata | Hemichordata | other explicitly justified placement | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which narrower biological model can supply applicable traits and actions." }, { "name": "Taxonomy identifier mapping", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Verified NCBI and GBIF records where available, with matched name, rank, and retrieval date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents substituting an identifier for a species or similarly named group." }, { "name": "Observed developmental stage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "embryo with staging system | larva | juvenile | adult | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Gives cleavage, symmetry, and anatomical observations their correct biological context." }, { "name": "Blastopore fate", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "contributes to anus | contributes to mouth | contributes to both | closes without either contribution | unresolved | not observed", "why_it_matters": "Records developmental evidence without turning the group's name into a universal diagnostic rule." }, { "name": "Cleavage and coelom formation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Separately described cleavage geometry and coelom formation mechanism, each linked to stage and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison while preventing textbook character combinations from being imposed on every lineage." }, { "name": "Stage-specific diagnostic anatomy", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed character linked to body region, stage, identification method, and proposed lineage", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes useful lineage evidence from absent, reduced, or developmentally transient structures." }, { "name": "Ecological and conservation applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Habitat, range, or assessment record linked to the particular descendant taxon or population and date", "why_it_matters": "Avoids inventing a single habitat, native range, or IUCN category for Deuterostomia." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether an organism or specimen belongs to Deuterostomia under a selected taxonomic treatment.", "Route an identified member to its chordate, echinoderm, hemichordate, or narrower model.", "Compare developmental observations across lineages while preserving stage and methodological differences.", "Flag classifications based solely on blastopore fate, adult symmetry, or assumed vertebrate traits.", "Request additional identification evidence and trace the effect of revised taxonomy on linked records.", "Retrieve species- or population-specific handling and conservation constraints once identification is sufficiently resolved." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxonomic-membership", "name": "Taxonomic membership", "description": "Establish what deuterostome means in the selected treatment and what biological entity is being classified.", "rationale": "This registry entry names membership in a broad animal group, so species-level defaults would misrepresent it.", "layers": [ { "id": "referent-and-name", "name": "Referent and name", "description": "Separate the organism sense from the higher taxon and its nomenclatural record.", "findings": [ { "id": "deuterostome-referent", "name": "Deuterostome referent", "description": "Record whether a statement concerns Deuterostomia itself or a particular member at a narrower biological level.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record describe Deuterostomia, a descendant taxon, a population, or an individual member?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "deuterostome-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Which source establishes the group's name, attributed authority, date, and rank in the selected treatment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "deuterostome-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-path", "name": "Classification path", "description": "Resolve membership through a documented lineage and database mapping.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-lineage-assignment", "name": "Supported lineage assignment", "description": "Connect the referent to its included lineage without assuming that every deuterostome is a chordate or vertebrate.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented classification path places this referent within Deuterostomia?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-lineage-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Which verified NCBI or GBIF records match the intended taxon and rank, and which mappings remain unavailable?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-lineage-assignment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evolutionary-boundary", "name": "Evolutionary boundary", "description": "Represent phylogenetic hypotheses and uncertain inclusion separately from operational classification.", "rationale": "The model must remain usable without concealing disagreement about the group's monophyly or peripheral lineages.", "layers": [ { "id": "phylogenetic-treatment", "name": "Phylogenetic treatment", "description": "Attach evolutionary claims to the studies and analyses that support them.", "findings": [ { "id": "monophyly-evidence", "name": "Monophyly evidence", "description": "Record support and competing topologies rather than presenting deuterostome monophyly as settled; a primary phylogenomic analysis reports model-sensitive support. [Primary research](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33741592/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the adopted analysis recover Chordata and Ambulacraria as an exclusive group, and with what support?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "monophyly-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "How do taxon sampling, evolutionary model, and sequence selection affect that result?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "monophyly-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disputed-and-fossil-placement", "name": "Disputed and fossil placement", "description": "Handle uncertain living lineages and fossil assignments without silently expanding the registry concept.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-inclusion", "name": "Conditional inclusion", "description": "Keep alternative placements explicit, including any treatment of Xenacoelomorpha and proposed stem-group fossils.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the selected treatment place Xenacoelomorpha, and does that placement change its operational deuterostome boundary?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "conditional-inclusion-q01" }, { "text": "For a fossil assignment, what evidence distinguishes crown membership, stem placement, and unresolved affinity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conditional-inclusion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "developmental-evidence", "name": "Developmental evidence", "description": "Capture the observations behind developmental character claims.", "rationale": "Deuterostomy is easily confused with a necessary and sufficient membership test.", "layers": [ { "id": "gastrulation-and-opening-fates", "name": "Gastrulation and opening fates", "description": "Describe the observed relationship between the blastopore, mouth, and anus.", "findings": [ { "id": "blastopore-fate-evidence", "name": "Blastopore fate evidence", "description": "Separate observed tissue fate from an expectation inferred from the name deuterostome.", "questions": [ { "text": "What happens to the blastopore in this species, and how was continuity with the later openings established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "blastopore-fate-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is the claimed fate directly observed, inferred from related species, or unstudied?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "blastopore-fate-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cleavage-and-coelom", "name": "Cleavage and coelom", "description": "Treat early developmental characters as separately evidenced observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-character-variation", "name": "Developmental character variation", "description": "Record cleavage and coelom formation without requiring every member to exhibit one canonical developmental sequence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cleavage geometry and coelom formation process are documented, using what staging and observation methods?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "developmental-character-variation-q01" }, { "text": "Does an apparent exception reflect lineage variation, an incomparable stage, or inadequate evidence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "developmental-character-variation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "body-plan-and-life-stage", "name": "Body plan and life stage", "description": "Interpret identification characters in the context of lineage and development.", "rationale": "Included animals differ greatly in adult form, and diagnostically useful structures can be transient or reduced.", "layers": [ { "id": "lineage-discrimination", "name": "Lineage discrimination", "description": "Use combinations of characters to choose an appropriate descendant model.", "findings": [ { "id": "lineage-character-evidence", "name": "Lineage character evidence", "description": "Evaluate stage-appropriate evidence such as chordate axial structures, echinoderm skeletal and water-vascular features, or hemichordate body organization.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed character combination supports chordate, echinoderm, or hemichordate placement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "lineage-character-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Could an apparently absent diagnostic structure be reduced, damaged, or absent only at the observed stage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lineage-character-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-history-transitions", "name": "Life-history transitions", "description": "Link developmental stages without transferring stage-specific traits indiscriminately.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-linked-identity", "name": "Stage-linked identity", "description": "Connect embryonic, larval, juvenile, and adult records where those stages apply to the identified lineage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence links the observed larval or juvenile form to the identified adult taxon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-linked-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes in symmetry, locomotion, feeding, or diagnostic anatomy occur across its documented life stages?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-linked-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ecological-context-and-action-routing", "name": "Ecological context 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described." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of deuterostome this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Chordates", "Echinoderms", "Hemichordates" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of deuterostome this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxonomic identifier", "note": "Deuterostomia is a higher taxon, not a species with a binomial name." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of deuterostome this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Organising animal diversity in taxonomy and evolutionary biology.", "Comparing embryonic development across animal lineages.", "Investigating the evolutionary origins of chordates and vertebrates." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of deuterostome this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating blastopore fate, radial cleavage or enterocoely 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a deuterostome, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognize a deuterostome through evidenced taxonomic placement, interpret lineage-dependent traits, and route biological decisions to the appropriate descendant taxon or individual.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 73 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a deuterostome, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 73 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one deuterostome from another, and a deuterostome from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a deuterostome sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a deuterostome from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a deuterostome is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a deuterostome and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a deuterostome is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a deuterostome is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a deuterostome is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a deuterostome moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a deuterostome passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a deuterostome between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a deuterostome, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a deuterostome is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What deuterostome is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of deuterostome, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate deuterostome from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish deuterostome from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What deuterostome does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does deuterostome pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of deuterostome judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where deuterostome lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of deuterostome, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does deuterostome hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a deuterostome came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a deuterostome and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a deuterostome is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a deuterostome, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a deuterostome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a deuterostome is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }