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Tools to Handle Taxonomic Lists
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Should DwC2taxo return list of orphan names? #65

Open vijaybarve opened 4 years ago

vijaybarve commented 4 years ago

There are synonyms in the lists with missing accepted names. Mostly they are invalid names. Should the function return that list too?

Jegelewicz commented 3 years ago

I think so. It is nice when anything is removed to be able to see exactly what it is. My siphonaptera from GBIF ended up with 263 orphan names. I assume it is because their taxonomicstatus is not included in statuslist. I removed all higher taxa before running DwC2taxo so I eliminated those "orphans" beforehand, but it would be nice if DwC2Taxo spit out the taxo file and the orphan file, then I could eliminate that step too.