ITIS Database Converted to GEDCOM

[socrtwo]

ITIS (http://www.itis.gov/) is a US governemnt organization tasked
with keeping track of the psecies of the World. They are
collaborating with the organization named Species 2000 (http://
www.sp2000.org/) to produce the Catalog of Life (http://
www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2008/search.php), which is
seeking to bring all 1.75 named species of the World into one databse
by 2011.

ITIS themselves have contributed about 400,000 species names. Their
portion of the database can be downloaded here: http://www.itis.gov/ftp_download.html.
I had a programmer convert this file into a gedcom where all the major
taxonomic divisions were designated as "individuals" in the gedcom
file, thus there are individuals for every species, genus, family,
order, class, phylum and kingdom. In fact the way the coder coded the
file every subtaxonomic name is included, so an Order name would have
a parent subclass name as the middle name or a subgeneus would have a
genus as the parent derviced middle name.

Also every "individual" is given a three part name consisting of their
taxonomic levle name, their parent taxonomic level name and their
kingdom name. Thus a plant order name would have a three part name
consisteing of Liliales (Plant Order Name) Liliidae (Parent Plant Sub-
Class Name) Plantae (The Plant Kingdom Name).

Every individual is also designated as a male and currently there are
no "marriages" or as I would see it, hypbridization events. In fact
hybridization events are why I concieved of the database. Theis
because I believe the "Tree of Life" is really a Web like any human
family tree. Thus any species would not be the result of accumulated
genetic mutations but instead result or at least in part result from
crosses between taxonomic divisions.

Thus the Tunicates that make cellulose and are consider the progenitor
of all organisms with backbones, would be a cross between a plant and
a filtering organism like a sponge.

The ITIS database derived gedcom file is in the attached files section
of this group.

[socrtwo]

Here is direct link to the attached file:
http://famous-family-trees.googlegroups.com/web/ITIS-Species-Database-Converted-to-GEDCOM.zip?gda=oEGK9F4AAACMhNhcvRwhmB6HdXpiT5-fykaA9CB2czf-vE4piBlYtWG1qiJ7UbTIup-M2XPURDSIC2KFIj02e9nZdw4pQTh429kNItNISDH3N_oZKuQFxx6ijeUCzqxz64ZIGzlhPFQ&gsc=kA5_6BYAAAAtZ-XykaohFd_9Uj9JihCrb4sM5LxQecB2XX9dOcthjQ.

On May 8, 7:28 am, socrtwo <socr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ITIS (http://www.itis.gov/) is a US governemnt organization tasked
> with keeping track of the psecies of the World.  They are

> collaborating with the organization named Species 2000 (http://www.sp2000.org/) to produce the Catalog of Life (http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2008/search.php), which is