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Record should be Vanuatu and not Fiji #3912

Open OBinFiji opened 2 years ago

OBinFiji commented 2 years ago

Species is considered to be endemic to Vanuatu - there are only 15 occurrences listed on GBIF. And yet there is a record from China, with no further data on location, and this one, with Fiji listed. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/122918627 The text on the image associated with the observation clearly states that the specimen was collected on Tanna, Vanuatu, and even gives Lat Longs for the precise location. This would be the first mappable record for the species on GBIF if that data was added.

Thanks!

Mark

ManonGros commented 2 years ago

The Fiji occurrence is from the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (FTG) (I contacted them).

The occurrence in China is from the INSDC Sequences dataset. It looks like the country entered is where the lab which sequenced the data is located: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/embl/MK704920.