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Issue: Duplicate African butterfly names #696

Open stevewoodhall opened 3 months ago

stevewoodhall commented 3 months ago

Describe the issue

Occasionally when using the app and I input the name of the butterfly it offers me two names that look identical. For example, 'Pro par' brings up 'Protogoniomorpha parhassus' twice. There are a couple of others like that, and I usually choose the uppermost option, but obviously one time I didn't and when I did a data download I saw that there were two names: ‘Protogoniomorpha parhassus‘ and ‘Protogoniomorpha parhassus (Drury, 1782)’. The author's name isn't supposed to be there. It can be fixed when editing the query in MS Excel but it's a faff. There are others too, but I haven't been keeping a record of them - when I do another transect I will. It would help if someone could go into the back end and look for records in the names table that have that fault, and erase them.

Expected behaviour

Only one name per butterfly taxon (at binomial or trinomial level). You can't see if there is non-standard text there because the app truncates the string so it fits a phone.

To Reproduce

  1. In 'settings' choose 'South Africa' as Country
  2. Switch on 'Use Global Species Lists'
  3. Use 15-minute count, Transect count, it's all the same
  4. Go 'Add Species'
  5. Type 'Pro par'
  6. See screenshot

App Version

1.26.4 (351)

Device

Samsung S9

When did this happen

No response

Screenshots

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Additional context

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kazlauskis commented 3 months ago

For reference, one Protogoniomorpha parhassus with ID 626516 is present in Nigeria, the other with ID 549203 is in Kenya and South Africa.

stevewoodhall commented 3 months ago

@kazlauskis that makes sense. Protogoniomorpha parhassus was split recently so we can't unscramble this egg. Which is the one with the author quoted? It shouldn't matter unless some pesky taxonomist decides to split them again! In fact, keeping track of taxonomic changes is making life hell at iNaturalist - how do you handle them?

stevewoodhall commented 2 months ago

@DavidRoy @kazlauskis I note that this only happens when I use the Global Species list. If I switch it off and use the South Africa list it only offers one name under Protogoniomorpha parhassus. If we can get the 'unknowns' into the SA list, we can ask people to only use that list and we kill two birds with one stone.