foozleface
commented
9 years ago Joe,
The issue you highlighted in your previous email is still an issue (horrible sentence, hum? But that is how my brain works after insomnia).
Look at the study case I gave you before, Hagensia havilandi godfreyi (http://www.antcat.org/catalog/442907). At the first sight, everything seems OK, but at the editing mode:
name: Pachycondyla havilandi godfreyi parent: Hagensia havilandi
The background of such issue in the subspecies names is:
Around 1 year ago I performed a huge amount of new combinations on AntCat. When transferring species that contained subspecies to another genus, my first step was to change the parent name of the species. That action transferred the species name to the new genus, but also transferred automatically its subspecies. However, such automatic transfer did not worked as it should. It changed automatically the parent of those subspecies, but did not change the subspecies name – and that is why we have Pachycondyla havilandi godfreyi as the "internal name" of Hagensia havilandi godfreyi.
On AntCat's "normal" mode the name appears correctly (Hagensia havilandi godfreyi), but it creates two issues to AntCat:
Pachycondyla havilandi godfreyi went automatically to Hagensia, and did not leave any trace of an obsolete combination in Pachycondyla as it should. The search for those names is uggly. If you search for Pachycondyla havilandi godfreyi, you will be redirected automatically to the page of Hagensia havilandi godfreyi (and then the user will ask "for godness' sake, why?). If you search for Hagensia havilandi godfreyi, AntCat will return "Hagensia havilandi godfreyi see Pachycondyla havilandi godfreyi" (http://www.antcat.org/catalog/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&id=430103&st=bw&qq=Hagensia+havilandi+godfreyi&commit=Go). Then, if you click on the link provided to Pachycondyla havilandi godfreyi, you will fall into the regular page of Hagensia havilandi godfreyi. I know it is confusing, but that is the best I can do right now. I just tried to change directly the name from Pachycondyla havilandi godfreyi to Hagensia havilandi godfreyi on the editing mode of http://www.antcat.org/catalog/442907, but AntCat understood I was trying to create a homonym, and then, I aborted my action. Do you have any clue on how to solve this?
Cheers,
Flavia
jonkerz
Background
AntCat treats subspecies names as children of species names, I believe. So, when you change a combination of a species name, AntCat automatically changes the parent name of its subspecies.
However, it is not so automatic: the subspecies name will still be classified in the obsolete genus, but if you click on edit, you will notice that the parent name reflects the new combination the species name suffered. So, confused you click on cancel, and that subspecies name will appear “automatically” newly combined.
Issue
In this case, the obsolete name will not be left in the “old genus” list of species/subspecies.
Study case: name ID# 442907 (http://www.antcat.org/catalog/442907) Hagensia havilandi godfreyi was the origianl combination; combined previously in Pachycondyla, it is Hagensia again.
Outcome
If a user perform search using an obsolete combination of those subspecies, that search will not return any result.