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Should be only one species in Galeocerdo #138

Closed hyanwong closed 8 years ago

hyanwong commented 8 years ago

This is a monotypic genus. Galeocerdo cuvier is the only extant member (see http://www.fishbase.org/identification/SpeciesList.php?genus=Galeocerdo). Are the others listed in the OpenTree fossils, by any chance?

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URL tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/opentree3.0@980013/Galeocerdo
Target node label Galeocerdo
Synthetic tree id opentree3.0
Synthetic tree node id 980013
Source tree id(s) ncbi:7818,gbif:2418233,irmng:1027171
Open Tree Taxonomy id 976353
Intended scope Re: OTT taxon
pmidford commented 8 years ago

Catalog of Fishes agrees, but IRMNG gives ambiguous results for G.davisi and G. vouncus. The rest seem to be fossil.

On 10/22/15 5:19 PM, hyanwong wrote:

This is a monotypic genus. Galeocerdo cuvier is the only extant member (see http://www.fishbase.org/identification/SpeciesList.php?genus=Galeocerdo). Are the others listed in the OpenTree fossils, by any chance?

Metadata Do not edit below this line Author None https://github.com/hyanwong Upvotes 0 URL tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/opentree3.0@980013/Galeocerdo https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/opentree3.0@980013/Galeocerdo Target node label Galeocerdo Synthetic tree id opentree3.0 Synthetic tree node id 980013 Source tree id(s) ncbi:7818,gbif:2418233,irmng:1027171 Open Tree Taxonomy id 976353 Intended scope Re: OTT taxon

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hyanwong commented 8 years ago

On 22 Oct 2015, at 22:31, Peter E. Midford notifications@github.com wrote:

Catalog of Fishes agrees, but IRMNG gives ambiguous results for G.davisi and G. vouncus. The rest seem to be fossil.

I think vouncus is a misspelling: see my comment on that node.

jar398 commented 8 years ago

As I've said I'm proposing to leave out all IRMNG-only taxa. That would remove vouncus, latidens, and minor. That leaves 'Galeocerdo cf. cuvier GJPN-2012' from NCBI. This is a "bio-material" and doesn't belong in the taxonomy. It would be expecting an awful lot of smasher to be able to figure that out, so I'm just going to prune that one taxon.

jar398 commented 8 years ago

Looks OK now