Taxonomy authority : How to manage an old taxonomy with a subspecies as a synonym ?

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Let's take the example of :
"Eulemur fulvus albifrons", an old taxonomy
"Eulemur albrifrons", the AcceptedSpecies

Proposed Taxonomy Authority
Verbatimspecies, AcceptedSpecies
Eulemur albrifrons, Eulemur albrifrons
Eulemur fulvus albifrons, Eulemur albrifrons

In the CSV file
Genus, SpecificEpithet, ScientificName, InfraspecificRank,
InfraspecificEpithet, VerbatimSpecies
Eulemur, fulvus, Eulemur fulvus albifrons, subspecies, albrifrons, Eulemur
fulvus albifrons

Expected Result :
VerbatimSpecies = Eulemur fulvus albifrons
AcceptedSpecies = Eulemur albifrons

Does it make sens ?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ajmrakot...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2009 at 2:05

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It makes sense-we discussed this case some time back and not sure if there is 
an easy
solution, but John and Aaron can weigh in

Original comment by tom.alln...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2009 at 4:53

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The description of the problem makes sense. However, there were two meetings 
during 
which the Taxon Authority was discussed and there was an executive decision to 
manage 
the Taxonomic Authority only to the Species level. The example here, if Eulemur 
fulvus is also an AcceptedSpecies, can't be solved under the current structure 
unless 
we change the semantics of AcceptedSpecies and allow an AcceptedSpecies to 
contain a 
trinomial (or more for plants).

Reasons for the executive decision included 
1) tractability of the Taxonomic Authority Management for the Review Board
2) inconsistency in whether records are identified as far as subspecies
3) Only species would be modeled.

Proposed solution.
1) Allow the VerbatimSpecies to contain trinomials in the Taxon Authority
2) Construct VerbatimSpecies from Genus + SpecificEpithet + InfraspecificEpithet
3) Allow only binomials in AcceptedSpecies, as now

This needs a consensus.

Original comment by gtuco.bt...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2009 at 7:54

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Sounds ok to me

Original comment by tom.alln...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2009 at 8:57

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I think this is the best way to solve the problem of subspecies. We agreed 
(during
the beta-testing on Friday that AcceptedSpecies remains binomials and within the
taxonomy csv databases, VerbatimSpecies can contain trinomials. Andry's example 
is a
good one for illustration.

Original comment by razafimpahanana@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2009 at 7:42

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Going to implement the solution where VerbatimSpecies gets constructed from 
Genus + 
SpecificEpithet + InfraspecificEpithet.

Original comment by gtuco.bt...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2009 at 7:20

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Original comment by gtuco.bt...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2009 at 7:20

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fixed in r1360. Verify this

Original comment by ajmrakot...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2009 at 8:11

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