search

AtlasOfLivingAustralia / ALA4R

Access data and resources hosted by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)
https://atlasoflivingaustralia.github.io/ALA4R/
42 stars 8 forks source link

Unexpected species match with `search_names` #19

Closed johnbaums closed 8 years ago

johnbaums commented 8 years ago

Searching for "Melaleuca fluviatilis" returns a match to Melaleuca fluviatilis x M.nervosa, despite Melaleuca fluviatilis existing in ALA.

search_names('Melaleuca fluviatilis')
#              searchTerm                              name commonName    rank                                      guid
#1 Melaleuca fluviatilis Melaleuca fluviatilis x M.nervosa         NA unknown     ALA_Melaleuca_fluviatilis_x_M.nervosa

In case it's relevant, my code suggests that in the past, the LSID for this species was urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:251180.

raymondben commented 8 years ago

The search mismatch itself is an issue in the underlying service: transferred to https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/bie-index/issues/75

As for the LSID, apparently some LSIDs have recently been updated - the LSID for M. fluviatilis now appears to be http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2915874

raymondben commented 8 years ago

Matching of subspecies or hybrids in preference to species should now be fixed, see https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/bie-index/issues/75