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Centrurus nigrescens = Centruroides nigrescens #105

Open vechocho opened 11 months ago

vechocho commented 11 months ago

Centrurus nigrescens Pocock, 1898 should be merged with Centruroides nigrescens (Pocock, 1898) as is the accepted name and the record migrated

COL taxon: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/69GYV

ktotsum commented 11 months ago

@mdoering Centrurus nigrescens (source: ZooBank) is accepted species in the backbone. However, I found that the status of genus (Centrurus) is doubtful. Would it be more reasonable to have a doubtful status for Centrurus nigrescens (or possibly exclude this genus in the backbone generation)?

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sjl197 commented 11 months ago

"Would it be more reasonable to have a doubtful status for Centrurus nigrescens (or possibly exclude this genus in the backbone generation)?"

Hi. Random end user here, with no ability to implement anything.

It's absolutely secure that Centrurus nigrescens Pocock, 1898 became Centruroides nigrescens (Pocock, 1898), the latter name is recognised as valid name from the authoritative source The Scorpion Files https://www.gbif.org/es/species/6894300 If you want more detail, it was for a time considered a subspecies of another as Centruroides nigrimanus nigrescens, [there's also another complication by Centruroides gracilis nigrescens Franganillo, 1930]

But more importantly, that's just one of many Centrurus Ehrenberg, 1829 that seem were imported from Zoobank then just got listed "unsorted" under Animalia. Why does this system allow so many such careless imports? There seems a drive to gather from as many online sources as possible, but awful filtering and data-quality management.

For the record - most of those "Centrurus" belong in various genera of scorpion family Buthidae, mostly Centruroides. For example, "Centrurus barythenar Penther, 1913" also imported in same batch from zoobank and now unplaced in Animalia as https://www.gbif.org/species/6893515 belongs under Jaguajir rochae (Borelli, 1910) [https://www.gbif.org/species/132953590] where the older name is already listed as a synonym! [https://www.gbif.org/species/196564451]

The genus name, i think, is still as in Fet 2000 catalog, where says "Centrurus Ehrenberg, 1829, an available junior synonym of Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Fm. Scorpionidae)" but as said for those many component species, see various Fm. Buthidae instead. Fet 2000: https://mds.marshall.edu/bio_sciences_faculty/88/