An output of a machine observation process for example a photograph, a video, an audio recording, a remote sensing image or an occurrence record based on telemetry
An output of human observation process eg. evidence of an occurrence taken from field notes or literature or a records of an occurrence without physical evidence nor evidence captured with a machine
A material entity that represents an entity of interest in whole or in part
A reference to, or citation of, one, a part of, or multiple specimens in scholarly publications, for example, a citation of a physical specimen from a scientifci collection in taxonomic treatment in a scientific publication or an occurrence mentioned in a field note book
A specimen that has been preserved, for example, a plant on an herbarium sheet or a cataloged lot of fish in a jar
A preserved specimen that is a fossil, for example, a body fossil, a coprolite, a gastrolith, an ichnofossil or a piece of petrified tree
A specimen that is alive, for example, a living plant in a botanical garden or a living animal in a zoo
Organism at a particular place at a particular time
Pending
