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Proboscidea searches is giving Insects #48

Open geotom88 opened 1 year ago

geotom88 commented 1 year ago

When you search on the app for Proboscideans, it changes the class to Insects. Also trying to pull records out the database using Proboscidea returns insect records. 2023-02-10 (1)

pnovack-gottshall commented 1 year ago

This isn't a bug (sorry, bad pun) - there IS an order of insects named Proboscidea Scopoli 1763 (now considered a synonym for Hemiptera). That's what is being visualized here.

What is weird is that the mammal clade Proboscidea Illiger 1811 is not being populated in this search index. I'm not sure if the problem is that both names are now opinioned to the same taxonomic rank (order) or if the index is simply not showing this name in its indexed namespace.

Both homonyms ARE available in the search index to the top right of the search page, however.

geotom88 commented 1 year ago

Hiya, ah ok that makes sense. I should have many fully explained why I thought it was a bug. If go through each of the taxa in levels - so Mammalia, Tethytheria.... then when I click the Proboscidea option, it changes the class from Mammalia to Insectivore etc. Does that make sense?

P.S very well placed pun :D

pnovack-gottshall commented 1 year ago

OK, now I see. I can replicate it my mapping Tethytheria, then choosing Proboscidea from the "10 immediate subtaxa," which then switches to the outdated insect homonym. That's very weird, because I can't see any errors in the opinions that underlay how taxa are parented. Let me poke around to see if I can find a fix. Thanks for catching!

PatHolroyd commented 2 months ago

This bug still seems to be present, but behaves differently in different parts of the interface. In the Navigator Omnibox, a search for Proboscidea will give you all three options in the dropdown menu and you can select one. At the main menu a search for collections containing Proboscidea will give you both elephants and hemipterans. A search for collections containing Proboscidea through the API or download records page gives only hemipterans.