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Ambiguous synonyms with wrong status and authorship #274

Open mdoering opened 3 years ago

mdoering commented 3 years ago

The June unstable ID report shows that some ambiguous synonyms have been converted into regular synonyms, duplicated and now only indicate in their authorship the pro parte situation. The status should be changed and ideally the data model and ColDP prefers to share the same name record with 2 or more synonym records. Then it is obvious the name is the same, but there exist 2 different accepted names for it now.

If the source cant be fixed use a decision to change the status and correct the authorships. "Merging" name records in decisions is not possible, but we could add such a thing in the near future easily.

Agama stellio brachydactyla
 - Agama stellio brachydactyla Haas, 1951 [AMBIGUOUS_SYNONYM SUBSPECIES 2303:5FFPC nidx=null parent=5F5L2]
 - Agama stellio brachydactyla Haas, 1951 [AMBIGUOUS_SYNONYM SUBSPECIES 2303:5FFPD nidx=null parent=5F5KW]
 + Agama stellio brachydactyla Haas, 1951 [SYNONYM INFRASPECIFIC_NAME 2315:8FRFT nidx=null parent=4ZR7V]
 + Agama stellio brachydactyla Haas, 1951: 1052 (Part) [SYNONYM INFRASPECIFIC_NAME 2315:8FRFV nidx=null parent=4ZR7V]

Latest unstable ID reports are always at https://download.catalogueoflife.org/col/latest_logs/unstable.txt All COL releases by attempt number here: https://download.catalogueoflife.org/releases/3/

mdoering commented 3 years ago

Alternatively we could consider to remove the ambiguous synonym status if it is not applied consistently.