Issues with Siphonaptera-standardized-v2

[Jegelewicz]

I just downloaded Siphonaptera-standardized-v2 from the TPT Github repo so that I could transform and import to Arctos and I noticed a few things while trying to get to the bare names. Any or all of these are likely my fault, but here they are:

Ceratophyllus rossittensis swansoni liu, 1935 should be Ceratophyllus rossittensis swansoni Liu, 1935 (bold so you can see the capitalization issue)

These names have issues with scientificNameAuthorship

scientificName	scientificNameAuthorship	expected scientificNameAuthorship
Chiastopsylla caffrarica DeMeillon, 1940	1940	DeMeillon, 1940
Chiastopsylla couchae DeMeillon, 1940	1940	DeMeillon, 1940
Chiastopsylla crassus DeMeillon, 1940	1940	DeMeillon, 1940
Chiastopsylla numae klaveriana DeMeillon, 1940	1940	DeMeillon, 1940
Chiastopsylla octavii caledonia DeMeillon, 1940	1940	DeMeillon, 1940
Pulex vulgaris DeGeer, 1778	1778	DeGeer, 1778
Xenopsylla achilla DeMeillon, 1947	1947	DeMeillon, 1947
Xenopsylla pasiphae DeMeillon, 1947	1947	DeMeillon, 1947
Xenopsylla trifaria orientalis Marcus, DeMeillon & Davis, 1960	Marcus, & Davis, 1960	Marcus, DeMeillon & Davis, 1960
Glauertidos M. Rothschild, 1937 (nomen novum for Glauertia = Acanthopsylla	M. Rothschild, 1937 Glauertia = Acanthopsylla	M. Rothschild, 1937 (nomen novum for Glauertia = Acanthopsylla
Parapsyllus magellanicus heardi DeMeillon, 1952	1952	DeMeillon, 1952
Ctenophthalmus calceatus septentrionalis DeMeillon, 1940	1940	DeMeillon, 1940
Atyphoceras Atyphloceras felix Jordan, 1933	Atyphloceras Jordan, 1933	Jordan, 1933
Hystrichopsylla narbeli Galli-Valerio, 19008	19008	Galli-Valerio, 19008
Hormopsylla cryptica Tipton & Machado-Allison, 1972	Tipton & 1972	Tipton & Machado-Allison, 1972
Echidnophaga tenerifensis Gil-Collado et al., 1982	et al., 1982	Gil-Collado et al., 1982

and just looking at that

Atyphoceras Atyphloceras felix Jordan, 1933 should be Atyphloceras felix Jordan, 1933 ?

And I don't know what year this should be 1908? - Hystrichopsylla narbeli Galli-Valerio, 19008

I'll be working on this off an on the next few weeks and I'll put anything I find here.

[Jegelewicz]

These names indicate they are varieties, but are ranked as subspecies

Ctenocephalus serraticeps var. murina Tiraboschi, 1904 Pulex irritans var. bahiensis Cunha, 1914 Pulex irritans var. dugesii Baker, 1899 Sarcopsylla gallinacea var. italica Tiraboschi, 1903 Pulex inaequalis var. simplex Baker, 1895

[Jegelewicz]

Another capitalization issue

Vermipsylla asymmetrica aSymmetrica should be Vermipsylla asymmetrica asymmetrica

[EMTuckerLab]

Thanks for working on this @Jegelewicz!

[Jegelewicz]

Aceratophyllus Ewing, 19299

1929?

[Jegelewicz]

More funky published years

Neoceratophyllus Liu, 193 Megarthroglossus procus oregonensis Hubbard, 194 Megarthroglossus muiri Augustson, 19537

[Jegelewicz]

Ceratophyllidae Dampf, 1908 does not have 1908 in publishedInYear

[njdowdy]

[> These names indicate they are varieties, but are ranked as subspecies

Ctenocephalus serraticeps var. murina Tiraboschi, 1904 Pulex irritans var. bahiensis Cunha, 1914 Pulex irritans var. dugesii Baker, 1899 Sarcopsylla gallinacea var. italica Tiraboschi, 1903 Pulex inaequalis var. simplex Baker, 1895

](https://github.com/njdowdy/tpt-taxonomy/issues/24#issuecomment-1542898858)

I believe the ICZN Code, Article 45, Section 6, Subsection 4 LINK rules that these should be considered subspecies. There is an exception in some cases, but the original works would need to be checked for additional context that would change the ruling.

[Jegelewicz]

@njdowdy HAHAHAHA! that means nothing to me! But it's OK, I'll deal with it in our system....

[Jegelewicz]

OK - so does that mean these should NOT have the "var." in them or that "var." is something that a subspecific name can use? That link is timing out for me - probably my firewall saying NO to taxonomy...

[njdowdy]

OK - so does that mean these should NOT have the "var." in them or that "var." is something that a subspecific name can use? That link is timing out for me - probably my firewall saying NO to taxonomy...

The summary of that article is this:

• Trinomials are typically treated as being at the rank of subspecies (and not an infrasubspecific rank)

The exceptions are:

• If the author of the name explicitly gives it infrasubspecific rank or if the content of the work clearly indicates it was proposed for an infrasubspecific entity, then it is considered infrasubspecific.
• If the author specifically used the qualifiers "aberration", "ab.", or "morph" (these are treated as infrasubspecific by default)
• If the trinomial was published after 1960 and the author used "variety", "form", "var.", "forma", "v.", "f.", etc, then it is treated as an infrasubspecific rank (otherwise it is considered a subspecific rank, but see next point)
• If the trinomials was published before 1960 with "variety", "form", etc, BUT the author specifically intended for it to be at the infrasubspecific rank, or the content of the work unambiguously reveals that the name was proposed for an infrasubspecific entity (except in the case of the next point)
• If the trinomial is subspecific if before 1985, it was used as a valid name of a species or subspecies or was treated as a senior homonym (this overrides the previous bullet point)

The bottom line is that these names should retain their "var." qualifiers, but likely continue to be ranked as "subspecies" according to the ICZN rules, because they are so old (presumably the reasoning is there were no standards for what those qualifiers meant until 1960). There are a few exceptions whose applicability can only be determined by checking the authors intent in the original publication. If the authors meant for them to be infrasubspecific than they would be recognized as such by ICZN, UNLESS those same names were used as a valid name for a species or subspecies, etc. in a publication before 1985.

Gotta love taxonomy!

[Jegelewicz]

Gotta love taxonomy!

Do I though?