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Table details: CRDA/17/DS/1/1/8

Bat Species Lookup Table (SPECIES_CODES)

 
 
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Context

AH/17  Nature Conservation Departments
  CRDA/17  British Bats
  CRDA/17/DS/1  English Nature
  CRDA/17/DS/1/1  1999 snapshot
 
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Summary

Title Bat Species Lookup Table
NDAD reference CRDA/17/DS/1/1/8
Scope & content Acts as a lookup table for the SPECIES_CODE field in the BATDATA table, providing the English and scientific names of the bat species.
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Identity statement

Table name SPECIES_CODES
Number of records 20
SIZE of file (KB) 1.17
Maximum record size (bytes) 80
ISAD(G) level of description Item
 
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Description

Field descriptions
 
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Fields

Number of fields 5
 
1
Field name: CODE
Data type: Positive Integer(Byte)
Original description: Species code
Further descriptive information:

This is the key to the file. {Maximum length 2}

Missing value(s): [not permitted for this field]
Attributes:

This field forms a 1 - Many relationship with the following tables:

From CRDA/17/DS/1/1 to BATDATA (CRDA/17/DS/1/1/1)

via the field SPECIES_CODE


Values range from 0 to 19
Constraints: This field may take any value appropriate to its datatype.
Encoding: [No encoding used]
 
2
Field name: ENGNAME
Data type: Variable Length String
Original description: English name of species
Further descriptive information:

{Maximum length 22}

Missing value(s): [not permitted for this field]
Attributes:
Constraints: This field may take any value appropriate to its datatype.
Encoding: [No encoding used]
 
3
Field name: SCINAME
Data type: Variable Length String
Original description: Scientific name of species
Further descriptive information:

{Maximum length 26}

Missing value(s): [not permitted for this field]
Attributes:
Constraints: This field may take any value appropriate to its datatype.
Encoding: [No encoding used]
 
4
Field name: SPNAME
Data type: Variable Length String
Original description: Short name for species
Further descriptive information:

{Maximum length 15}

Missing value(s): [not permitted for this field]
Attributes:
Constraints: This field may take any value appropriate to its datatype.
Encoding: [No encoding used]
 
5
Field name: RCODE
Data type: Positive Integer(Short)
Original description: Recorder species code
Further descriptive information:

{Maximum length 14}. Recorder is software, also written in Advanced Revelation, used by many Biological Records Centres. It was originally written by English Nature and became available semi-commercially.

Missing value(s): [not permitted for this field]
Attributes:
Constraints: This field may take any value appropriate to its datatype.
Encoding: [No encoding used]
 
 
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