Hi Donat,

OK, that does seem very necessary in your use case... I'll let you know 
when I get around to make hierarchical facets.

David

Donat Agosti wrote:
> The hierachy of names is tantamount to the very basic nature of systematics,
> the hierarchy of life.
> Part of one would look like: 
>
> Order
>       Family
>               Genus
>                       Species
>
> Mammales
>       Hominidae
>               Homo
>                       sapiens
>
> As Terry pointed out, having hierarchical facets would help because of
> another characteristics in such hierarchies, that many parents have hundreds
> of children, such as the genus Camponotus with 1096 species. Many of the
> children, especially at the species level, are only described once, and
> that's why those facets will only have count 1. Higher counts occur when
> they have been redescribed. But they are nevertheless important, in fact
> often the only trace in literature that such a species exists.
>
> Thus, yes it would be interesting to have such a hierarchy...
>
> Donat
>   

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