wqx/descriptions/FrequencyClassDescriptor.json.js

Water Quality Exchange (WQX): JSON Schema

export default {
  Adult: '3.0)Lifestage, Individual known to be sexually mature.',
  'Adult, Female':
    '3.0)Lifestage, Female Individual known to be sexually mature.',
  'Adult, Male': '3.0)Lifestage, Male Individual known to be sexually mature.',
  Age: '1.1)Measured Characteristic,',
  'Age, Otoliths (Fish)': '1.1)Measured Characteristic,',
  'Age, Scales (Fish)': '1.1)Measured Characteristic,',
  'Age, Spines (Fish)': '1.1)Measured Characteristic,',
  'Age, Vertebra (Fish)': '1.1)Measured Characteristic,',
  Budded: '3.1)Lifestage, Mature Plant with leaf and/or flower buds.',
  Dead: '3.1)Lifestage, Dead',
  Deformities: '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Diameter: '1.2)Measured Characteristic,',
  Egg: '3.1)Lifestage, Mature ovum, spawned or unspawned, fertilized or not.',
  Emaciated: '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Embryo:
    '3.1)Lifestage, an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development',
  'Eroded Fins': '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Exfoliate: '3.1)Lifestage, Mature plant, denuded of leaves (as wintering).',
  Feeding:
    '7.0)Behavioral Activity, Species actively consuming vegetation/substrate',
  Female:
    '5.0)Sex, Female of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes.',
  'First Form':
    '3.1)Lifestage, Decapod crustacean with hard pleopods. Can copulate.',
  'First Instar': '3.1)Lifestage, Of all instar forms, in the first third.',
  Flowering:
    '3.1)Lifestage, Mature plant with open (reproductively active) flowers.',
  Foliate: '3.1)Lifestage, Mature plant with leaves.',
  'Fresh Dead, Mollusc':
    '3.1)Lifestage, Dead, Mollusc with intact periostracum and lustrous nacre',
  Fruited: '3.1)Lifestage, Mature plant, fruit or fruit bodies present.',
  Fungus: '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Girth: '1.2)Measured Characteristic,',
  Gravid:
    '3.1)Lifestage, Female with prominent ovaries. Eggs present and ripe.',
  Height: '1.2)Measured Characteristic,',
  Hermaphrodite: '5.0)Sex, Hermaphroditic. Having both male and female organs.',
  Hybrid: '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Imwcap:
    '3.1)Lifestage, Tubificid worm. No penis sheath. Capilliform chaetae.',
  Indeterminate:
    '5.0)Sex, Indeterminate. Lacking unambiguous sexual indicators.',
  Juvenile: '3.0)Lifestage, Any stage between egg and adult.',
  'Juvenile, Female': '3.0)Lifestage, Female Any stage between egg and adult.',
  'Juvenile, Male': '3.0)Lifestage, Male Any stage between egg and adult.',
  Larva: '3.0)Lifestage, Immature stage between egg and pupa (or adult).',
  'Larva Exuvia':
    '3.0)Lifestage, The cast-off exoskeleton of a larval arthropod.',
  'Late Instar': '3.0)Lifestage, Of all instar forms, in the last third.',
  Length: '1.0)Measured Characteristic,',
  'Length, Fork (Fish)': '1.0)Measured Characteristic,',
  'Length, Standard (Fish)': '1.0)Measured Characteristic,',
  'Length, Total (Fish)': '1.0)Measured Characteristic,',
  Lesions: '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Live: '3.1)Lifestage, Live',
  Loafing: '7.0)Behavioral Activity, Species on land or ice and not feeding',
  Male: '5.0)Sex, Male of or denoting the sex that produces small, typically motile gametes, especially spermatozoa, with which a female may be fertilized or inseminated to produce offspring.',
  'Mid Instar':
    '3.0)Lifestage, Of all instar forms, in the second (or middle) third.',
  Mixed:
    '3.1)Lifestage, Mixed life stages, no attempt to distingish one from another',
  'N/A': '7.0)Behaviora Activity, Not available',
  Naiad: '3.1)Lifestage, Aquatic, gill-breathing nymph (q.v.).',
  Nesting: '7.0)Behaviora Activity, Species on nest',
  Nongravid:
    '3.1)Lifestage, Female with very small ovaries.  Oocytes not discernible. (no gravid)',
  Nymph:
    '3.0)Lifestage, Stage after hatching of insect that does not form a pupa.',
  Other: '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Parasites: '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Parr: '3.0)Lifestage, juvenile salmonid/freshwater stage',
  'Post Larva': '3.0)Lifestage, Fish between yolk absorption and juvenile.',
  Pupa: '3.0)Lifestage, The non-feeding stage preceding adult in arthropods.',
  'Pupal Exuvia':
    '3.0)Lifestage, The cast-off exoskeleton of a pupal arthropod.',
  Resting: '7.0)Behaviora Activity, Species on water and not feeding',
  'Roe Present':
    '3.1)Lifestage, Female with developing ovaries.  Eggs discernible.',
  'Second Form': '3.0)Lifestage, Decapod crustacean with soft pleopods.',
  Seed: '3.0)Lifestage, Mature seedor fruit, fertilized or not.',
  Seedling: '3.0)Lifestage, Sprouted seed, with immature leaves or leaflets.',
  Smolt: '3.0)Lifestage, juvenile salmonid/seaward adaptation  stage',
  Spent:
    '3.1)Lifestage, Female with empty ovaries.  Eggs absent or undeveloped.',
  Stocked: '6.0)Miscellaneous, Stocked',
  Subadult:
    '3.1)Lifestage, Sexually immature but secondary sex characteristics present',
  'Subfossil, Mollusc':
    '3.1)Lifestage, Dead, Mollusc shell, shell chalky with no periostracum',
  Subimago: '3.1)Lifestage, First of the two-winged instars of mayfly.',
  'Temperature, Tissue': '1.3)Measured Characteristic,',
  'Total Abnormalities': '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Tumors: '4.0)Biological Abnormality,',
  Uncategorize:
    '3.1)Lifestage, Individual not classified or arranged in categories of lifestages',
  'Weathered Dead, Mollusc':
    '3.1)Lifestage, Dead, Mollusc shell, with intact periostracum but weathered, chalky nacre',
  Weight: '2.0)Measured Characteristic,',
  Width: '1.2)Measured Characteristic,',
  'Y.O.Y.':
    '3.0)Lifestage, Young of the year.  Fish in its first year of life.',
  'Yolk Larva': '3.0)Lifestage, Fish between hatching and yolk absorption.',
  ill: '7.0)Behaviora Activity, Species ill (e.g., isolated, gasping for breath, etc.)'
}