Creating a Faunal List with the Filters

[mabecabrera]

Feature or enhancement

When getting a resulting list of Taxon Names within a specific geographic area, the total number of taxon names resulting may be overestimated because of the species that include subspecies, since TW consider them both in the resulting list. In OSF we can filter that with an option of Nomenclature Rank that is called: "subspecies and species that don't have subspecies".

In the last session @mjy proposed to solve this through the "linker"whit a specification of a geographic scope (faunal list) so we can download this Faunal List considering each species o subspecies just once.

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[mjy]

@mabecabrera this was OTU filter, right?

I think I now know how to make the query, so maybe we can integrate it directly.

Note to self: leaves.

[proceps]

This will fail, if you have distribution on species, but no distribution on subspecies (probably).

[mjy]

Here is where we need OTUs with valid names really, that's all.

[mabecabrera]

It was the Nomenclature Filter. I first used the Filter OTUs, to select an area, and a family. All this in the OTU Filter. I then used the unified filter to take those OTUs to the Nomenclature Filter so I could have a list only of the valid names for those OTUs. That is how I created the Faunal list.

I tried to do it the way Matt said in that session the previous week (Using first the Filter Nomenclature), but having first all the valid taxon names that belong to a family and then moving that to the OTU filter... I was having a list of OTUs... but I needed Taxon Names... so I discarded that path.

Am I right?

[mjy]

Understood @mabecabrera, you are correct in terms of trying to get the result you want. We had a little more discussion on this with a couple more insights. Might be able to run some experimental reports in the near future, we'll see.

[mabecabrera]

Hello! Again with this faunal list thing. I created a list o OTUs through the OTU Filter (All the Orthoptera in Africa). Then I took all the results to the Nomenclature Filter. So I can get only the valid names. I have two issues. One is that the list includes the species of all the subspecies... so I will have a bigger number than I should. And the other is... I tried to download the whole list... To delete one by one of these cases... but the download only gives me the amount of rows I can see on the table. And not the complete list o the results as I need.

What could I do?