[MCZ Herp R-49457] Lepidodactylus crepuscularis - MCZ R-49457 locality error

[rdmpage]

This specimen is listed as being from Africa, but it's not an African taxon. Looking at the image of the catalogue http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/11736417?buttons=y the locality for this specimen is given as "7 miles s. e. of La Foa, New Caledonia". Looks like the same error has been made for other specimens from this locality (see records in GBIF for Caledoniscincus austrocaledonicus http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?TAXON_KEY=2461897&SPATIAL_ISSUES=false&GEOMETRY=-31+-18%2C-31+19%2C25+19%2C25+-18%2C-31+-18

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You can view the original detail page on VertNet. Here are the original record contents:

Term	Value
InstitutionID	b4640710-8e03-11d8-b956-b8a03c50a862
InstitutionCode	MCZ
CollectionCode	Herp
OwnerInstitutionCode	Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
BasisOfRecord	PreservedSpecimen
OccurrenceID	MCZ:Herp:R-49457
CatalogNumber	R-49457
RecordedBy	GSCandale
IndividualCount	1
Preparations	whole animal (ethanol)
Disposition	unknown
OtherCatalogNumbers	muse location number=ZR49455
AssociatedMedia	http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:R-49457
EventDate	1945-04-20
StartDayOfYear	0
VerbatimEventDate	20/4/1945-20/4/1945
HigherGeography	Africa, Ghana, Greater Accra
Continent	Africa
Country	Ghana
StateProvince	Greater Accra
Locality	Accra,Gold Coast
VerbatimLatitude	5.55d
VerbatimLongitude	-0.217d
VerbatimCoordinateSystem	decimal degrees
DecimalLatitude	5.55
DecimalLongitude	-.217
GeodeticDatum	WGS84
CoordinateUncertaintyInMeters	9115
CoordinatePrecision	9115
GeoreferencedBy	CSD (MCZ)
GeoreferenceProtocol	MaNIS/HerpNET/ORNIS Georeferencing Guidelines
GeoreferenceSources	fallingrain.com Gazetteer: www.fallingrain.com
GeoreferenceRemarks	used Accra PPL, extent estimated to be 6.5 km. Map scale 1: 500 000.
IdentifiedBy	Catalog
IdentificationVerificationStatus	unverified
ScientificName	Lepidodactylus crepuscularis
HigherClassification	Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Sauria Gekkonidae Lepidodactylus crepuscularis
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Family	Gekkonidae
Genus	Lepidodactylus
SpecificEpithet	crepuscularis
NomenclaturalCode	ICZN

[heliumcell]

This issue was passed on to the relevant collection and has been fixed in the database. Thank you for reporting this issue.

Brendan Haley Sr. Database Manager MCZ-Harvard University

[rdmpage]

Thanks for the update. I see this is visible at http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:R-49457, the next question is when will this appear in VertNet and GBIF?

[heliumcell]

I believe both Vertnet and GBIF use our IPT resources which are published weekly (On Wednesdays, currently). So the longest it would take to show up in our IPT resource would be 7 days. I cannot however speak to how often GBIF and Vertnet “harvest” and re-index. That is a question best addressed by the folks in either of those groups.

-brendan

From: Roderic Page [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 3:03 PM To: mcz-vertnet/mcz-subset-for-vertnet Cc: Haley, Brendan Subject: Re: [mcz-subset-for-vertnet] [MCZ Herp R-49457] Lepidodactylus crepuscularis - MCZ R-49457 locality error (#1)

Thanks for the update. I see this is visible at http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:R-49457, the next question is when will this appear in VertNet and GBIF?

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[tucotuco]

As of last night, the data were updated in VertNet. http://portal.vertnet.org/o/mcz/herp?id=r-49457

[rdmpage]

Nice!