Incorrect author for species Lipolexis peregrinus

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Incorrect author for species Lipolexis peregrinus

According to Kocic et al.(2020) the taxon name should be Lipolexis peregrinus Tomanovic & Kocic, 2020 instead of Lipolexis peregrinus Tomanovic & Kavallieratos, 2020-29.

It's probably wise to also check the other new species from Kocic et al.(2020).

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[ktotsum]

@mdoering scientificNameAuthorship is "Tomanovic and Kavallieratos in Kocic et al., 2020" and namePublishedInYear is "2020-09-29" in ITIS, but it was interpreted as “Tomanovic & Kavallieratos, 2020-29” in the backbone. It looks like scientificNameAuthorship and namePublishedInYear are concatenated in a wrong way. Could you take a look into this?

Lipolexis peregrinus Tomanovic & Kavallieratos, 2020-29 https://www.gbif.org/species/199311716/verbatim https://www.gbif.org/species/11520810 https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2144/taxon/1185959 https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/53147/taxon/11520810

Similar issues are found for other species from ITIS: Search results for "Tomanovic & Kocic, 2020-29" https://www.gbif.org/species/search?q=Tomanovic%20%26%20Kocic,%202020-29 Distocader Froeschner, 1968-29 https://www.gbif.org/species/134210454/verbatim

[mdoering]

Hm, sth must go wrong during the ITIS dwca import. It is also in the API (the portal UI does render names sometimes slightly differently): https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/199311716

[mdoering]

The problem is that the dwc term is supposed to be a year only, but ITIS gives a date. This confuses the import code unfortunately and results in an intermediate name Tomanovic and Kavallieratos in Kocic et al., 2020, 2020-09-29 which ends up being the wrong name you see.

I have added a check in the code to verify we only add proper nomenclatural years to the authorship. Ill see if I can get that deployed today, but probably only tomorrow

[mdoering]

ITIS is being reimported just now with the improved code

[ktotsum]

Reopening this because of the author name issue. @DaveNicolson : could you take look in this feedback here about the author? "Tomanovic & Kocic" but not "Tomanovic & Kavallieratos" for Lipolexis peregrinus. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1185959#null Data Quality Indicators is verified for this species on ITIS.

[DaveNicolson]

Thanks for noting this, I see the paper it comes from declares it as "Lipolexis peregrinus sp. n. Tomanović and Kocić", so it should show in ITIS as Tomanovic and Kocic in Kocic et al., 2020, not as Tomanovic and Kavallieratos in Kocic et al., 2020. This error slipped through our QA/QC processes. I'll let the team know and we'll get that fixed.

[DaveNicolson]

I don't understand appending the actual publication date (which is a full date, not a plain year) to the taxon author string that already has a standard plain year, that seems to carry a potential to corrupt the data. But we will correct the error in the underlying ITIS taxon author string.

[mdoering]

@DaveNicolson We only add a date to the authorstring if it is missing. Ideally dwc:namePublishedInYear should just be a simple year, not a date, and it should be the nomenclaturally relevant date just as it is given in the authorstring. It is mostly useful for botanical names which do not carry the year in the authorstring.

[DaveNicolson]

It sounds like you're getting that value from a full date value from ITIS (actual publication date, a full date). Presumably (1) that value can be taken, if needed, from the year portion of actual publication date (in generating the COLDP data from ITIS), and (2) the logic for appending year where missing from taxon author string is corrected for cases like this where the year was already there. For animal data in ITIS, there should never be a case where the original description is linked to the name in ITIS and yet the year is not present in the taxon author string, so I would not expect this appending to ever happen for ITIS' animal data.

In any case, the corrected author for Lipolexis peregrinus will be in ITIS' next monthly version.