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Preserve GBIF 'doubtful' taxa when they have non-'doubtful' descendants #324

Open jar398 opened 7 years ago

jar398 commented 7 years ago

e.g. Prays (doubtful) contains Prays peregrina in the latest GBIF (online).

The GBIF Prays record derives from http://www.gbif.org/species/124346506 and there is no evidence given that it is actually 'doubtful'. Maybe we should forget about 'doubtful' suppression entirely - I thought it would be a good way to weed out unaccepted names, but it seems it doesn't mean what I thought it meant.