Reptile Database - How can subspecies synonyms could be added?

[camiplata]

Hi @gdower , I have been using the Reptile database lately an got the impression that, as subspecies do not have an individual page/record on Reptile DB and its synonyms are handled within the species synonyms box, the data parsing might be leading to some inconsistencies or absences.

Take for example Micrurus dumerilii with 6 subspecies. On COL, the synonyms associated with the species are rather synonyms of the subspecies, and the subspecies do not have synonyms associated:

The structure within the webpage is not necessarily easy to follow, is there any possibility that this information is rather shared from the author on a format that can make more straight forward the extraction of this synonyms? or I'm misinterpreting something?

[mdoering]

Looks like each synonym block is related to the accepted subspecies which is given as the first name in that block?

But some are odd in that they add brackets to the authorship, like these Micrurus dumerilii transandinus SCHMIDT 1936 # accetpted Micrurus dumerilii transandinus (SCHMIDT,1936) # first name in synonym block

[camiplata]

Exactly and also some may have some typos like missing 'i' at the end, so they are not detected as duplicates on CLB (for this particular species)

[mdoering]

@gdower can you detect and treat the synonym blocks as related to subspecies rather than the main species? Otherwise we are basically saying all subspecies are synonyms of the species

[mdoering]

well, the "synonyms" with -- in front of the author are really chresonyms and should either be marked as such or entirely excluded in the ColDP. Which seems to be exactly right in our ColDP