-- Name -- species distribution data set -- Definition -- This data set is a collection of individual spatial objects (units) in a distribution of species. -- Description -- Collection of individual spatial objects of allowed geometry where a species occurs.
-- Name -- species distribution unit -- Definition -- Occurrence of animal and plant species aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit. -- Description -- Pan-European, national or local mapping initiatives, resulting in spatial data for species in terrestrial and marine environments, e.g. for birds, insects, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish or vascular plants. NOTE 1 Only species are mentioned in the INSPIRE definition. But earlier INSPIRE documents (INPIRE IMS, 2003) mentions both species or species grouped e.g. to families. So we interprete species as taxa, which means taxonomic units at any systematic rank, like subspecies, species, genus, family etc.