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Wallengrenia egeremet.. a subspecies of W. otho? #187

Open mikeroswell opened 2 years ago

mikeroswell commented 2 years ago

Wondering if the backbone taxonomy is severely out of date on this species. NatureServe lists a species Polites egremet https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.112413/Polites_egeremet. The taxon concept matches the backbone name Wallengrenia egermet, which seems to be considered a separate species (e.g., Burns 1985 ) and is listed this way by ITIS . However, historically it seems this was considered a subspecies of W. otho, which I guess is the synonymy reflected in the backbone. Is the backbone out of date in this case?

ManonGros commented 2 years ago

@mikeroswell the last backbone update was almost a year ago so it isn't up to date. However, in this particular example I suspect we might have an issue we our system incorrectly inferring a synonymic relationship. I logged it and we will investigate.

In any case, if you want to read more on how our backbone taxonomy is generated and maintained, you can check this blogpost: https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/gbif-backbone-taxonomy/