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Class Actinopterygii excluded #61

Closed icornelis90 closed 5 months ago

icornelis90 commented 5 months ago

When uploaded 12S eDNA metabarcoding data the fish Class Actinopterygii gets excluded from the metrics, and is replaced by unknown Class.

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ManonGros commented 5 months ago

This is because Actinopterygii is no longer a class in the GBIF backbone taxonomy. In the Catalogue of Life, Actinopterygii is a gigaclass. Unfortunately, we don't support intermediate taxon ranks. So this means we don't have Actinopterygii any more.

There are some related issues you can check: https://github.com/gbif/checklistbank/issues/79 and https://github.com/gbif/pipelines/issues/850 amongst others.