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# Merge Similar Species

- OCCURRENCE
- DESCRIPTION
- NOTES
- EXAMPLES
- WARNINGS
- BUGS

## OCCURRENCE

### ARB_NT/Species/Merge Species/Merge Similar Species

### ARB_NT/Sequence/Concatenate sequences/alignments

## DESCRIPTION

### "Merge Similar Species" creates new species by merging fields and alignments of several similar species.

- Mark all species that should be examined for similarity.
- Select a database field entry by clicking on the first button to set a similarity-criterion used to detect candidates for merging (for e.g., full_name).
- Specify the new field name to which the "number of merged species" information is to be stored (e.g., merged_species).
- Press MERGE SIMILAR SPECIES to start.

## NOTES

### There's a second function to merge species: see ´Join species´

## EXAMPLES

### None

## WARNINGS

### None

## BUGS

### No bugs known