However in some cases spec is a common abbreviation from species and we parse spec as species or infraspecies in names like
Eunotia genuflexa Norpel-Schempp nov spec
Ctenotus spec.
Byrsophlebidae spec. 2
Naviculadicta witkowskii LB & Metzeltin nov spec
The first group is legitimate, and the second is not. We can clean it up by a preparsing step that removes everything after (and including) either spec. or nov spec with space or word border at the start.
There are real names like
However in some cases
spec
is a common abbreviation from species and we parsespec
as species or infraspecies in names likeThe first group is legitimate, and the second is not. We can clean it up by a preparsing step that removes everything after (and including) either
spec.
ornov spec
with space or word border at the start.