Regression for incertae sedis (Carex vulpina)

[ahahn-gbif]

Similar to #272, a plant (Carex vulpina agg.) mapped into butterflies due to name similarity (Carea vulpina Warren, 1912) plus missing higher taxonomy

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[mdoering]

Agree this is unfortunate: http://backbonebuild-vh.gbif.org:9000/species/match2?verbose=true&name=Carex%20vulpina%20agg.

Sth odd with the aggregate matching, which is supposed to ignore the species and try the next higher level - Carex in this case. Which should yield a plant genus match: http://backbonebuild-vh.gbif.org:9000/species/match2?verbose=true&name=Carex

Cant say whats going wrong here

[ahahn-gbif]

As would http://backbonebuild-vh.gbif.org:9000/species/match2?verbose=true&name=Carex%20vulpina - is "agg." recognized as a term to omit when matching (or would that even make sense)?

[mdoering]

We explicitly did not want to match to the species in case of aggregates and had users complaining about that: https://github.com/gbif/portal-feedback/issues/4459

[mdoering]

This happens because we remove the exact matches due to the aggregate, but leave in the fuzzy ones. I will change the code so we also ignore any fuzzy matches in case we removed exact matches due to the aggregate rank

[ahahn-gbif]

Now matching at genus level with full higher taxonomy of the correct group (Cyperaceae), http://backbonebuild-vh.gbif.org:9000/species/match2?verbose=true&name=Carex%20vulpina%20agg.

[mdoering]

matches now correctly to higher genus: http://backbonebuild-vh.gbif.org:9000/species/match2?verbose=true&name=Carex%20vulpina%20agg.