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Catalog of Life grafting species to genera that are not ancestors #1602

Open loarie opened 6 years ago

loarie commented 6 years ago

e.g. importing Bornetella sphaerica (an algae) grafts to Mystus (a fish) https://staging.inaturalist.org/taxa/624863-Bornetella-sphaerica

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Is this happening because of the catalog of life source_identifier?

kueda commented 6 years ago

Probably. Using the source identifier used to help reduce the problem in which species would graft to the wrong synonymous genus, but if we're having this kind of problem more often, maybe we should just ditch that and live with the wrong synonymous genus problem?