Teamplaid:Taxobox colour/documentation

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Note to template editors: Edits to the taxonomic terms (taxa) in this template depend for their effect in manual taxoboxes on the colour-determining taxon being at a rank allowed to change the taxobox colour by {{Taxobox}}, so this may need altering. Colours must be defined using the rgb(..,..,..) format to enable {{Sets taxobox colour}} to work correctly.

Adhbhar - Purpose

This template is one of a number of configuration templates used in the taxobox system, in this case in both manual and automated taxoboxes.

It generates the appropriate colour for a taxobox.

It should only be used by other taxobox templates.

Use by taxonomy templates

Manual taxoboxes call this template from {{Taxobox}}, which looks at the values of ranks given in the taxobox from phylum upwards and uses the taxobox colour for the first colour-setting taxon found (or the error colour if none is found). {{Sets taxobox colour}} is used to decide whether a taxon is colour-setting, which it does by using this template.

Automated taxoboxes use a function in Mòideal:Autotaxobox, which finds a colour-setting taxon by searching up the taxonomic hierarchy coded in taxonomy templates (i.e. templates with names of the form "Taxonomy/taxon-name").

Setting colour within a taxobox

Both manual and automatic taxoboxes usually generate their colours automatically. If this fails, or if for some reason the automatically generated colour should be over-ridden, |color_as= can be used to set the colour based on a supplied taxon. Thus:

| color_as = Animalia

within a taxobox forces its colour to be the one appropriate for animal taxoboxes. The taxon given as the value of |color_as= must be in the switch statement in this template. Thus |color_as=Felis fails and assigns the error colour.

Sgeama datha Taxobox - Taxobox colour scheme

Viruses rgb(250,250,190) also Viroids
bìoras rgb(250,250,190)
Bacteria rgb(220,235,245)
baictear rgb(220,235,245)
Archaea rgb(195,245,250) also Nanoarchaeota (Nanarchaeota), Korarchaeota, Thaumarchaeota, Crenarchaeota and Euryarchaeota
Eukaryota rgb(245,215,255) For eukaryotes with no other colour defined, including Excavata, Amoebozoa and Opisthokonta
Animalia rgb(235,235,210)
ainmhidh rgb(235,235,210)
Fungi rgb(145,250,250)
fungas rgb(145,250,250)
Archaeplastida rgb(180,250,180) also Plantae and Viridiplantae
SAR rgb(200,250,80) also Chromalveolata
incertae sedis rgb(250,240,230)
Ichnotaxa rgb(215,240,210)
Ootaxa rgb(250,250,220)
Plant rgb(180,250,180)
lus rgb(180,250,180)

Roinnean-seòrsa tracaidh - Tracking categories

Teamplaidean taiceadh - Supporting templates

Faic cuideachd - Also see

Other configuration templates include:

  • {{Gaelicize rank}} – converts the Latin form that is used in taxonomy templates to the Gaelic equivalent
  • {{Principal rank}} – defines the Linnaean principal ranks that are shown by default in automated taxoboxes
  • {{Is italic taxon}} – defines which ranks cause taxon names to be italicized in automated taxoboxes