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gbif / name-parser

The core GBIF scientific name parser library
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Parse authors with initials after the surname as single author #28

Closed mdoering closed 4 years ago

mdoering commented 5 years ago

Example Purana guttularis (Walker, F., 1858) This currently results in 2 authors: Walker & F.

See for code here: https://github.com/gbif/name-parser/blob/master/name-parser/src/main/java/org/gbif/nameparser/ParsingJob.java#L1288

On this page the species is presented as : Purana guttularis (Walker & F., 1858) https://www.gbif.org/species/7953930

To me, this would read as "(Walker & Fabricius, 1858)", which is obviously incorrect as Fabricius died in 1808.

Of course, the species was published by Francis Walker, so the F. is probably intended to identify the exact "Walker" as in "Walker, F.". Francis Walker being one of the early authors I'm suspecting he might haver been the first to claim the name in zoological naming (and the F. might not be needed), but I'm not too sure about that.

Anyway, the ampersand seems to be out of place, so it should be either (Walker, 1858) or something like (Walker F., 1858) or maybe (Walker, F., 1858).

mdoering commented 4 years ago

Physomerinus septemfoveolatus Schaufuss, L. W. still gets parsed to Schaufuss & L.W