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Another benefit would be that user-agents could be instructed to treat text marked up in this way as not being in the base language of the document or element in which they occur - pronunciation should be as for Latin, they should not be translated (e.g. where a component word happens also to be a
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A further benefit the species microformat brings, is in enriching and enhancing species checklists, which are commonly found on the web. Broadly speaking, a species checklist is a list of taxa, usually for a particular group of similar organisms such as birds or vascular plants, found within a
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Your software would automatically know to search site A if the scientific name referred to a moth, site B for a bird, and site C for a plant - and you could set your preferences as to which sites those were to be, and in which order two or more were to be searched (e.g. for moths, try UK Moths
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Imagine viewing a web page with a reference to a species (or genus or other rank; or cultivar, breed or hybrid, etc.) - and being able to use an add-on to your browser to be taken directly to information about that species, on, say, Wikispecies, or Google Images, or another site, such as in an
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