Issue 18382

Spiders in the Indian ocean are molluscs

18382
Reporter: mdoering
Assignee: mdoering
Type: Task
Summary: Spiders in the Indian ocean are molluscs
Priority: Major
Status: Reopened
Created: 2016-04-07 14:57:15.885
Updated: 2016-07-27 13:17:02.906
        
Description: With the new backbone and updated processing we see a drastically different map with many spider occurrences showing up in the Indian and Pacific Ocean: http://mdoering.github.io/nub-browser/app/#/taxon/1496

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Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2016-04-07 15:07:33.305
Updated: 2016-04-07 15:07:33.305
        
New occurrences in the Indian ocean seem to be all from the genus Heteropoda which is indeed a spider genus:
http://www.gbif-uat.org/occurrence/search?TAXON_KEY=1496&GEOMETRY=64.5%20-11.7,64.5%20-25.5,95.5%20-25.5,95.5%20-11.7,64.5%20-11.7

For example http://www.gbif-uat.org/occurrence/112952315/verbatim sampled in 0-200m depth

http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3115/Heteropoda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteropoda


I cannot find evidence for them to appear in oceans, but at least our interpretation of the surprising records seems to be correct
    


Author: donald hobern
Comment: Meh ... http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=zsao&menuentry=inleiding&id=133&tab=foto
Created: 2016-04-07 15:14:46.564
Updated: 2016-04-07 15:14:46.564


Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: Damn, I will see how we can best add that group to the backbone. With no further classification given the records should then remain unmatched.
Created: 2016-04-07 15:40:23.553
Updated: 2016-04-07 15:40:23.553


Author: rdmpage
Comment: Perhaps we need an issue flag for occurrences that have a scientificName without an accompanying classification? Looks like a number of data providers assume that GBIF knows the taxonomic context of an occurrence without providing any obvious way to determine that.
Created: 2016-04-07 18:02:54.615
Updated: 2016-04-07 18:02:54.615


Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2016-04-07 18:03:02.753
Updated: 2016-04-07 18:15:07.922
        
Apparently nowadays treated as a synonym of the superfamily Pterotracheoidea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterotracheoidea

Yet another example of a non Linnean higher taxon missing in our backbone. I would hope at some point we can add non Linnean ranks to the backbone, see POR-2781

I will add Heteropoda as a synonym of the gastropod order Littorinimorpha which is the closest we have in our backbone:
http://www.gbif-uat.org/species/7490430

    


Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2016-04-07 18:04:42.759
Updated: 2016-04-07 18:04:42.759
        
Such a flag would be good indeed, Rod.
And we should probably start curating datasets a little and assign them a taxonomic context in our registry if possible. Often they are restricted to a kingdom or even lower
    


Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: https://github.com/gbif/backbone-patch/commit/f9c1e0b5cbd713d2d1f7a6b31e4a2589b1421b93
Created: 2016-04-07 18:14:47.755
Updated: 2016-04-07 18:14:47.755


Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: as the records dont come with a rank and the order Heteropoda is considered a synonym it still matches the spider genus
Created: 2016-04-15 12:34:04.338
Updated: 2016-04-15 12:34:04.338