Issue 18793

Personidae family badly merged in backbone

18793
Reporter: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: Personidae family badly merged in backbone
Priority: Critical
Status: Open
Created: 2016-10-25 19:38:29.541
Updated: 2016-10-25 19:38:57.033
        
Description: The family Personidae appears to exist twice in the Catalog of Life. Once in molluscs and once in insects:
http://www.gbif.org/species/search?q=Personidae&rank=FAMILY&dataset_key=7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
http://www.gbif.org/species/123790536
http://www.gbif.org/species/123620363

In the current CoL there is only the mollusc family:
http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/481ccf1aa30e15f54086c8aef1b47f55

It appears that there are indeed 2 families with that name existing, Personidae Novokshonov 1995 which is extinct and Personidae Gray 1854
http://www.gbif.org/species/search?q=Personidae&rank=FAMILY&dataset_key=c33ce2f2-c3cc-43a5-a380-fe4526d63650

We seem to merge them in the backbone and only the insect version remains which is unfortunate. Allow the 2 families to coexist
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