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missing species from rl_sp_country output #46

Closed arw36 closed 3 years ago

arw36 commented 3 years ago

Why are certain species missing from this output of species list by country despite IUCN having maps that show presence? Using foxes in ukraine as an example: 

ua_species <- rl_sp_country("ua", key = token)
"Vulpes vulpes" %in% ua_species$result$scientific_name

This yields false, but should be true based on viewing the IUCN spatial maps. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/23062/46190249

This may be same issue as #39

sckott commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the issue @arw36

I do see that Ukraine is in the map of the range for that taxon, but If i look at the geographic range section of that page https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/23062/46190249#geographic-range it doesn't list Ukraine in the list of countries - so maybe the results - Or do you mean that that taxon is in Ukraine in the iucn maps https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/spatial-data-download ?

arw36 commented 3 years ago

Ah, I meant Ukraine is a location on the map (and mammal guides for the country), so I guess this is an omission in the text section on IUCN side not rredlist that I can manually fix in my analysis. What's best practice for contacting IUCN about page errors: contact the assessor? the authority? IUCN SSC CANID SPECIALIST GROUP in this case.

sckott commented 3 years ago

I don't know who to contact about this. On the iucn site there's an email under contact us or give feedback - no idea if they'll respond though

arw36 commented 3 years ago

Ah kay. I sent the an email to redlist@iucn.org and the canid group. Worth a try I guess.