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species name apparently not matched properly #5223

Closed kpmcfarland closed 4 months ago

kpmcfarland commented 4 months ago

Poanes hobomok T.Harris, 1862 is now Lon hobomok. In our checklist (see https://www.gbif.org/dataset/73eb16f0-4b06-4347-8069-459bc2d96ddb) we have it as such with the syn. being P. hobomok. This apparently caused GBIF to do this: https://www.gbif.org/species/210595535, which created Lon spec. We would suggest that P. hobomok becomes a syn. and Lon hobomok is the accepted name in the backbone, or at least make Lon hobomok something other then turning it into Lon spec.

CecSve commented 4 months ago

Thank you for reporting the issue. For some reason, the checklist entry for the species is not mapped to the backbone although the backbone does have the accepted name and the synonym.

@thomasstjerne can you explain why this record is turned into Lon spec. T. Harris, 1862 instead of being mapped to the backbone Lon hobomok (Harris, 1862)?

kpmcfarland commented 4 months ago

I bet it has to do with the author name. GBIF backbone is Harris, 1862 while the authority in North America has it as T. Harris 1862, see https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Lon_hobomok_a.htm. I am going to change my checklist to match GBIF and I bet it works... stay tuned.

CecSve commented 4 months ago

Yes, I suspected the same but cannot tell for sure. I hope it works!

kpmcfarland commented 4 months ago

Sadly, it does not seem to have worked. See https://www.gbif.org/species/210595535/verbatim. So I am not sure why it is not matching this correctly.

MattBlissett commented 4 months ago

I think it is the capital letter on the species epithet, Lon Hobomok.

Cecilie, if you wish to see the API call:

Lon Hobomok: https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match2?authorship=(Harris%2C%201862)&rank=SPECIES&specificEpithet=hobomok&kingdom=Animalia&phylum=Arthropoda&order=Lepidoptera&class=Insecta&family=Hesperiidae&genus=Lon&verbose=true&name=Lon%20Hobomok%20(Harris,%201862)

Lon hobomok: https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match2?authorship=(Harris%2C%201862)&rank=SPECIES&specificEpithet=hobomok&kingdom=Animalia&phylum=Arthropoda&order=Lepidoptera&class=Insecta&family=Hesperiidae&genus=Lon&verbose=true&name=Lon%20hobomok%20(Harris,%201862)

kpmcfarland commented 4 months ago

dang it. I missed that I guess. Let me correct that.

kpmcfarland commented 4 months ago

Okay, my change has traveled through the system and it is now fixed! I thank you for peering into this here and I also am sorry it was a dumb typo mistake that cost you time!

CecSve commented 4 months ago

No worries! Just glad it could be sorted out so quickly.