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Mayflies pretending to be mosses #143

Open CamSlatyer opened 1 year ago

CamSlatyer commented 1 year ago

Not quite sure what is happening here. This record shows an inaturalist record with full taxonomy for Ephemerella within Ephemeroptera that has mismatched to a group of mosses in NZOR: https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/b769c44c-3510-45c0-9822-8dc3bbe04f58. The mayfly genus is in ALA correctly from AFD here: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/31f98d50-e5e0-42d5-8137-7d7fbafc81b7. It appears that the mayfly genus Ephemerella has been incorrectly associated within the NZOR Bryophyte genus Ephemerella (Family Ephemeraceae): https://bie.ala.org.au/species/NZOR-6-55721#classification - in spite of full taxonomy being supplied with the inaturalist record.