[ { "classificationSystem": [ { "title": "Otter Record Survey", "date": [ { "date": "2000", "dateType": "publication" } ], "responsibleParty": [ { "contactId": "2", "role": "publisher" } ] }, { "title": "Another Record Survey", "date": [ { "date": "2003", "dateType": "publication" } ], "responsibleParty": [ { "contactId": "1", "role": "publisher" } ] } ], "taxonGeneralScope": "The otters observed were identified to the subspecies criterion and identified as southern sea otters.", "observer": [ { "contactId": "1", "role": "principalInvestigator" }, { "contactId": "2", "role": "pointOfContact" } ], "taxonomicProcedure": "volunteers observed sea otters using binoculars in pairs", "voucher": { "specimen": "weathered skull found on beach", "repository": { "contactId": "2", "role": "publisher" } }, "taxonClass": [ { "taxonRank": "Kingdom", "taxonValue": "Animalia" }, { "taxonRank": "Phylum", "taxonValue": "Chordata" }, { "taxonRank": "Subphylum", "taxonValue": "Vertebrata" }, { "taxonRank": "Class", "taxonValue": "Mammalia" }, { "taxonRank": "Subclass", "taxonValue": "Theria" }, { "taxonRank": "Infraclass", "taxonValue": "Eutheria" }, { "taxonRank": "Order", "taxonValue": "Carnivora" }, { "taxonRank": "Suborder", "taxonValue": "Caniformia" }, { "taxonRank": "Family", "taxonValue": "Mustilidae" }, { "taxonRank": "Subfamily", "taxonValue": "Lutrinae" }, { "taxonRank": "Genus", "taxonValue": "Enhydra" }, { "common": "Sea Otter", "taxonRank": "Species", "taxonValue": "Enhydra lutris" }, { "common": "Southern Sea Otter", "taxonRank": "Subspecies", "taxonValue": "Enhydra" } ] } ]