Fungi Taxonomy Nub incorrect

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What is it that we are missing?
I just ran two very different fungi:
Cantharellus minor f. intensissimus and
Calycina firma

Both came up with a taxonomic tree 
Kingdom Fungi  
Phylum Basidiomycota  
Class Dacrymycetes  
Order Dacrymycetales  
Family Dacrymycetaceae  

Well, Fungi is right. And the Cantharellus is a basidiomycete. But the rest is 
wrong.

Probably some sort of indexing problem

Otherwise, the site is very nice-- fast and very helpful.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cir1842...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2011 at 9:33

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thanks. The classification trouble with this fungi genus is because in the 
january 2011 version of the catalogue of life we use there are 15! different 
classifications for the genus:
http://ecat-dev.gbif.org/search?q=Cantharellus&rkey=10

It is a homonym and there is also a correct animal genus Cantharellus, but all 
others are various fungi.
When we synthesize our backbone taxonomy the algorithm has to merge these 
genera as we only recognize 1 fungi genus in this case. And obviously there is 
no way to detect which classification is the correct one - it will probably 
randomly pick one - apparently the wrong one. The latest catalogue of life does 
not seem to have this problem, so it will hopefully be fixed in our next 
backbone in a few weeks.

Original comment by wixner@gmail.com on 29 Nov 2011 at 9:14

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Thanks. No problem-- I have the same issues trying to keep up with the
names. Things get moved faster than I can get them checked.

Original comment by cir1842...@gmail.com on 29 Nov 2011 at 3:34

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In the latest nub this seems to be solved.
I cannot judge if its the correct classification though, but its a different 
basidiomycete class and a correct looking order:

Cantharellus minor Peck, 1872
 http://ecat-dev.gbif.org/usage/9643002

Kingdom Fungi
Phylum  Basidiomycota
Class   Agaricomycetes
Order   Cantharellales
Family  Cantharellaceae
Genus   Cantharellus

Calycina firma (Pers.) Gray
http://ecat-dev.gbif.org/usage/9668507

Kingdom Fungi
Phylum  Ascomycota
Class   Leotiomycetes
Order   Helotiales
Family  Hyaloscyphaceae
Genus   Calycina

Original comment by wixner@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2012 at 9:19

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