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gnames / gnparser

GNparser normalises scientific names and extracts their semantic elements.
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"Phacopsis oxyspora cf. var. defecta Triebel & Rambold" should be treated similar to "Phacopsis cf. oxyspora" #216

Open dimus opened 2 years ago

dimus commented 2 years ago

@abubelinha mentioned in https://github.com/gnames/gnverifier/issues/64

Currently parsing of cf. annotation works only for species Aus cf. bus but not for infraspecies Aus bus cf. cus

Archilegt commented 1 year ago

Related article in the ZooCode: 5.3. Typographical signs and qualifying abbreviations excluded. A typographical sign such as ?, and an abbreviation such as aff., prox. or cf., when used to qualify the application of a scientific name, does not form part of the name of a taxon even when inserted between the components of a name. See also "Open nomenclature" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_nomenclature

abubelinha commented 1 year ago

Even if those modifiers are not part of the names, I think the point here is being able to match names found in not-so-clean taxonomic lists (which sometimes contain those modifiers, as mentioned in https://github.com/gnames/gnverifier/issues/64). @abubelinha