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[MCZ Herp A-5443] Colostethus elachyhistus - Eight records confused with different species #33

Closed rdmpage closed 9 years ago

rdmpage commented 9 years ago

Eight records, including this one, seem to have been confused due to conflating two taxa in the MCZ catalogue.

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Term Value
InstitutionID b4640710-8e03-11d8-b956-b8a03c50a862
InstitutionCode MCZ
CollectionCode Herp
OwnerInstitutionCode Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
BasisOfRecord PreservedSpecimen
OccurrenceID MCZ:Herp:A-5443
CatalogNumber A-5443
RecordedBy Emmett Reid Dunn
IndividualCount 1
Preparations whole animal (ethanol); whole animal (miscellaneous)
Disposition unknown
OtherCatalogNumbers muse location number=ZA5441
AssociatedMedia http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:A-5443
EventDate 1916-10-01/1916-10-31
StartDayOfYear 0
VerbatimEventDate 0/10/1916-0/10/1916
HigherGeography North America, United States, Tennessee, Rhea
Continent North America
Country United States
StateProvince Tennessee
County Rhea
Locality Tenn: Sprign City
VerbatimLatitude 35.6884898d
VerbatimLongitude -84.8665788d
VerbatimCoordinateSystem decimal degrees
DecimalLatitude 35.6884898
DecimalLongitude -84.8665788
GeodeticDatum NAD27
CoordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2092.1472
CoordinatePrecision 2092.1472
GeoreferencedBy SK (INHS)
GeoreferenceProtocol MaNIS/HerpNET/ORNIS Georeferencing Guidelines
GeoreferenceSources Maptech Terrain Navigator 2005
GeoreferenceRemarks Geographic center of Spring City
IdentifiedBy Catalog, Rivero
IdentificationVerificationStatus unverified
IdentificationRemarks GEN: Redetermined by Rivero, 1987; MISC: Duplicates are 110642-882
ScientificName Colostethus elachyhistus
HigherClassification Animalia Chordata Amphibia Lissamphibia Anura Bufonoidea Dendrobatidae Colostethus elachyhistus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Amphibia
Order Anura
Family Dendrobatidae
Genus Colostethus
SpecificEpithet elachyhistus
ScientificNameAuthorship Edwards, 1971
NomenclaturalCode ICZN
rdmpage commented 9 years ago

Looking at the GBIF map for Colostethus elachyhistus http://www.gbif.org/species/2429234 there are eight records for this neotropical frog from Texas http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?TAXON_KEY=2429234&HAS_GEOSPATIAL_ISSUE=false&GEOMETRY=-116+18%2C-116+49%2C-60+49%2C-60+18%2C-116+18

Looking at the record for http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:A-5443 and clicking on the link to the catalogue image http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/8462766?buttons=y it looks like the locality data for eight records of "Prostherapis pulchellus" (Peru: Querocotilla) has been replaced with that for Rana palustris (Texas, Spring City).

heliumcell commented 9 years ago

This issue has been forwarded to the collection staff who are checking the data.

heliumcell commented 9 years ago

These data have been checked and fixed by the collection staff.

rdmpage commented 9 years ago

Thanks!