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A versioned and dynamically updating taxonomic lookup table for land plants
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Myrinia misattributed as in Angiosperms, should be Bryophytes #41

Closed rossmounce closed 7 years ago

rossmounce commented 7 years ago

Yet another homonym-related error.

The legitimate usage is in the bryophytes The illegimate usage is in angiosperms http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40024361

On both TPL e.g. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-35171180 and plant_lookup.csv, Myrinia is mistakenly assigned to the family Onagraceae in the major group Angiosperms.

It should instead be assigned: Myriniaceae,Myriniaceae,Undeter_peristomate_moss,Bryophytes

incidentally it's also the type genus of the family(!!!)

so -4 angiosperms, +4 bryophytes in terms of species-counting and -1 angiosperm and +1 bryophyte in terms of genera-counting

PS I found these homonym-issues by cross-checking the large genus-rich phylogeny from Hinchcliff & Smith (2014) with TPL/taxonlookup. Phylogeny helping to spot errors in taxonomies - it's usually vice versa! http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.450qq

wcornwell commented 7 years ago

removing from Onagraceae for the moment, but haven't got a way to get it into mosses yet. will work on that

cool idea to cross check with a big phylo!

wcornwell commented 7 years ago

closed in favor of #43

wcornwell commented 7 years ago

tropicos has it in Fabroniaceae...so putting it there for now...