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Subspecies: designation as ssp. will trip alignment to NONE #106

Closed jtmiller28 closed 1 year ago

jtmiller28 commented 2 years ago

Subspecies in plants seem to be commonly recorded as ssp., however Nomer is unable to use them with WFO it seems currently. ex. echo -e "\tLathyrus vestitus ssp. alefeldii" | nomer append wfo will provide: Lathyrus vestitus ssp. alefeldii NONE Lathyrus vestitus ssp. alefeldii while ex. echo -e "\tLathyrus vestitus subsp. alefeldii" | nomer append wfo will provide: Lathyrus vestitus subsp. alefeldii HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME WFO:0000210138 Lathyrus vestitus subsp. alefeldii subspecies Lathyrus vestitus | Lathyrus vestitus subsp. alefeldii WFO:0000173698 | WFO:0000210138species | subspecies http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000210138

Not sure if this is something to add to consideration as a precleanup step for your own data or if this should be added to Nomer. Naming schemes seem to vary, however a majority of unique named records in occurrence records have ssp. for plants vs subsp. (~4,700 ssp., ~1900 subsp. in my western North America data)

jtmiller28 commented 1 year ago

Again, this appears to be specific to the catalogue wfo, So probably just something the user should know about when using Nomer rather than an integration into Nomer.