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Mix up in higher taxonomy between host and parasite #2727

Closed ManonGros closed 3 years ago

ManonGros commented 4 years ago

One of our users contacted us because he noticed that the higher taxonomy for the following genera was suspicious. It seems like these come from PLAZI taxonomic treatment of parasites (such as feather mites) where the host's taxonomy (Aves) was mistaken for the parasite's taxonomy. @myrmoteras @gsautter would it be possible to check what is happening?

Genera DOI(s) of the dataset concerned
Pseudonematophila https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.279099, https://doi.org/10.15468/tshrol
Crassacarus https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4023.1.1, https://doi.org/10.15468/lqwl7q
Vireodectes, Picipterodectes and Montsauria https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.282115, https://doi.org/10.15468/d6pc0u
Fainharpirhynchus and Perhapyrhynchus https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3860.4.1, https://doi.org/10.15468/rj0uq2
Atelophyllodes https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.192069, https://doi.org/10.15468/bfafmr
Neopicobia and Rafapicobia https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4113.1.1, https://doi.org/10.15468/ad9psd
Harpactiacus, Cinclosomatiellum, Philemoniellus, Garrulaxeus and Estrildinirmus https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4615.2.2, https://doi.org/10.15468/yg76nv
Krantziaulonastus https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.207623, https://doi.org/10.15468/urlfnk
Tyrannidectes https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.203166, https://doi.org/10.15468/b6e5m8

I am also adding some other genera from PLAZI treatment that seem to have been misclassified (although as far as I can tell they are not parasites):

Genera DOI(s) of the dataset concerned
Carnarvoncochlea and Conondalia https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4583.1.1, https://doi.org/10.15468/ycrhs6
myrmoteras commented 4 years ago

Dear ManonGros, GBIF might it be possible to post such messages for Plazi also into our https://github.com/plazi/community/issues github repository that is for such purposes. Let us know - this would save some emails, and also keep a track on such issues on our side. cheers donat

ManonGros commented 4 years ago

Yes, we will try to log in new issues directly on https://github.com/plazi/community/issues as much as possible.

ManonGros commented 4 years ago

The taxonomy has been updated on PLAZI side. Now we need to check that everything is corrected in the next backbone update.

ManonGros commented 3 years ago
There seem to be two remaining ones in the new backbone: Genera DOI(s) of the dataset concerned
Neopicobia and Rafapicobia https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4113.1.1, https://doi.org/10.15468/ad9psd
Tyrannidectes https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.203166, https://doi.org/10.15468/b6e5m8
gsautter commented 3 years ago

Cleaned up now ... @ManonGros thanks for pointing us to this mix-up.

ManonGros commented 3 years ago

@gsautter Thanks for correcting those! Now I realise I forgot to report a few more, could you perhaps check all of the records in this checklist (https://doi.org/10.15468/ad9psd, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4113.1.1)? Here are a few examples of suspicious taxonomy left:

gsautter commented 3 years ago

@ManonGros thanks for spotting this one, fixed ... always a bit of a problem untangling the higher taxa of parasites and their hosts, especially if the latter have a way more prominent presence in literature ...

ManonGros commented 3 years ago

Thanks @gsautter ! I can see some potential others in this checklist: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.203166, https://doi.org/10.15468/b6e5m8 Could you check if this is the case?

gsautter commented 3 years ago

Fixed that latter one as well.

ManonGros commented 3 years ago

Wonderful! Thanks @gsautter