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Class Actinopterygii excluded #61

Closed icornelis90 closed 10 months ago

icornelis90 commented 10 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 10 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.