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# Integration Integrating biodiversity information  Typically integration across biodiversity databases is achieved using taxonomic names \cite{Patterson_2010}, but the rise of dark taxa makes this problematic for an increasing fraction of sequence-based data. Even if we have names, these need not always mean the same thing \cite{Kennedy_2003}. As an example, Fig xa shows the distribution of the lizard _Morethia obscura_ from GBIF. For comparison, Fig. xb shows a geophylogeny \cite{Page_2015} for DNA barcodes for Morethia obscura from BOLD which reveal considerable phylogenetic structure within "Morethia obscura", which is reflected in specimens of this species being assigned to several distinct BINs implying that "Morethia obscura" comprises more than one species.