Carabus does not occour in southern hemisphere

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Reporter: feedback bot
Assignee: jlegind
Type: Feedback
Summary: Carabus does not occour in southern hemisphere
Status: Open
Created: 2015-08-24 12:48:32.335
Updated: 2015-11-18 09:34:18.025
        
        
Description: There are 9 items for the genus Carabus that must be faults because Carabus is only spread over the northern hemisphere. All are from the same place: the island of Europe between Africa and Madagascar. A joke?
My search was Carabus and limited geographically by -23,40 to -22,42
Best regards,
D.M.


*Reporter*: Dietrich Mossakowski
*E-mail*: [mailto:dmossa@uni-bremen.de]]]>
    

Author: ahahn@gbif.org
Comment: As the issue states, the coordinates coincide with an island in the southern hemisphere. Flipping the latitude into a positive value does not fix this issue (the records are then positioned in Saudi Arabia) If the genus is Northern-hemispheric, could this be an error introduced e.g. with  reverse-georeferencing, assigning a coordinate value to a locality description of "Europa"? Suggest to hand this issue on to the publisher of the records for verification.
Created: 2015-08-24 13:35:28.581
Updated: 2015-08-24 13:35:28.581

Author: ahahn@gbif.org
Comment: Contacted dataset owners
Created: 2015-09-14 14:17:15.698
Updated: 2015-09-14 14:17:15.698