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M. musicum #88

Closed klausriede closed 1 month ago

klausriede commented 1 month ago

https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/926812/overview recordings missing!

typophyllum commented 1 month ago

Thanks for reporting this. The species had altogether four OTUs. I deleted three of them, and now the sound links are displayed.

https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/804264/overview

klausriede commented 1 month ago

just a question to deepen my understanding: If there are four Operational Taxonomic Units, there are 4 "operators" or operation? Finally, an OTU has been defined/designed by somebody. 4 OTUs might be 4 morphospecies of 16 specimens, 4 of each representing one morphospecies, correct?

mjy commented 1 month ago

OTUs in TW are a very loose "uniit of work". We can imagine the two scenarious you list as possible. Thinking of 4 operations as the origin of the OTUs is also reasonable. The 4 may be temporary outcomes of a import process, for example, where certainty of a specific goal is uncertain. For example in the SFG when names were not completely aligned we took a concervative approach and used an operation to create 4, reather than assume they might be one. OTUs give us a gateway to more resolution than names alone provide. Whether that resolution is the goal of a project is up to the project's curators.

klausriede commented 1 month ago

thanks, so basically I got this right! Now back to the example above: where do the 4 OTUs come from?

mjy commented 1 month ago

Almost certainly the process of the import. More than likely via combinations of data in the original SF that did/not include authors, referenced distributions with name strings that couldn't be matched, etc. You'd have to do some sleuthing.

klausriede commented 1 month ago

suggestion: make a list of Original SF data without authors, name strings without matches etc. Sleuthing these days should be done by AI...