Closed johnbaums closed 9 years ago
Hi John
Ben Raymond, Adam Collins (ALA developer) and I have been trying to identify the issues here. We know it is a bie issue with bulk lookup (not freetext search) and not an ALA4R issue as such (as we just call the ALA ws). After some discussion, Adam has seeded a new bie issue at https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/bie-service/issues/4
We hope that the 'bie people' will be able to fix this anomaly.
Thanks Lee - appreciate it :)
Closing this issue since it's really one for the underlying service (referenced in Lee's comment above). Will reopen here if the service gets fixed but somehow it doesn't fix the downstream issue in ALA4R.
I've encountered instances where a search for a subspecies returns a hybrid instead of the ALA taxon with an exact name match. E.g.:
But taxon Asplenium obtusatum subsp. northlandicum does exist in ALA. Changing the search string to "Asplenium obtusatum ssp. northlandicum" returns the expected taxon.
I'm not sure if this is a biocache issue or an ALA4R issue... a GET request using the species search web service returns the expected taxon, as well as the hybrid (see http://bie.ala.org.au/ws/search.json?q=Asplenium%20obtusatum%20subsp.%20northlandicum).
Other similarly-affected taxa include: