GNUB names incorrectly parsed

18795
Reporter: rdmpage
Assignee: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: GNUB names incorrectly parsed
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2016-10-27 13:43:34.731
Updated: 2016-10-27 14:09:55.028
        
Description: Some names in GNUB http://www.gbif.org/dataset/34a96ebe-e51c-4222-9d08-5c2043c39dec are not parsed correctly. These seem to be cases of GNUB weirdness.

Example

http://www.gbif.org/species/115083103 "Cynoglossus senegalensis null morpha Chabanaud 1949"

In the original description http://bionames.org/references/7c186d4a1ad8ccc3671264c2884a6e50 this taxon is described as _Cynoglossus senegalensis simulator_  morph nova. The GNUB verbatim record has DWC:SCIENTIFICNAME as "Cynoglossus senegalensis morpha simulator Chabanaud, 1949"  It looks like "morpha"has ended up being replaced with "null" in GBIF, and the infrasubspecific epithet "simulator" has been lost. Looking at the ICZN code http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/index.jsp?article=45&nfv=true trinomials with "morph" should be treated as infra subspecific. I guess this is an edge case, but it looks messy.

_Maera_ Barnard 1970 http://www.gbif.org/species/115043490 makes little sense as Barnard 1970 is not the author of the genus. The DWC:SCIENTIFICNAME record is Maera “sp. B” [Barnard, 1970], so it's an unidentified species.]]>
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2016-10-27 14:09:55.028
Updated: 2016-10-27 14:09:55.028
        
This is a little strange as the name parser handles the morph name correctly: http://api.gbif.org/v1/parser/name?name=Cynoglossus%20senegalensis%20morpha%20simulator%20Chabanaud,%201949

I will try to see how that happened