Genus is missing for Conus species

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Reporter: rdmpage
Type: Bug
Summary: Genus is missing for Conus species
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-06-06 17:32:41.427
Updated: 2014-06-10 11:18:24.131
        
Description: Something is badly broken in the portal's taxonomy of Conus. If you look at the genus page http://www.gbif.org/species/2303217 you can see that has a lot of species. But if you click on a species, e.g., http://www.gbif.org/species/5935275 and look at the Classification on the right, you see the genus listed as "--". Hence the classification goes from family "Conidae to the species name, and there is no genus displayed.

Strangely, the version of the backbone taxonomy that I have downloaded (the most recent on the portal) has parentNameUsageID set correctly, and "parentKey" in the JSON from the API is also correct. But the genus level is missing (see JSON below).

{
    "key": 5935275,
    "kingdom": "Animalia",
    "phylum": "Mollusca",
    "clazz": "Gastropoda",
    "order": "Neogastropoda",
    "family": "Conidae",
    "species": "Conus jenkinsi",
    "kingdomKey": 1,
    "phylumKey": 52,
    "classKey": 225,
    "orderKey": 982,
    "familyKey": 6779,
    "speciesKey": 5935275,
    "datasetKey": "d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c",
    "nubKey": 5935275,
    "parentKey": 2303217,
    "parent": "Conus",
    "scientificName": "Conus (Chelyconus) jenkinsi",
    "canonicalName": "Conus jenkinsi",
    "authorship": "",
    "nameType": "WELLFORMED",
    "rank": "SPECIES",
    "origin": "SOURCE",
    "taxonomicStatus": "ACCEPTED",
    "nomenclaturalStatus": [],
    "accordingTo": "Paleobiology Database",
    "numDescendants": 0,
    "identifiers": [
        {
            "key": 3688202,
            "usageKey": 5935275,
            "datasetKey": "d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c",
            "identifier": "107664424",
            "type": "SOURCE_ID"
        }
    ],
    "sourceId": "107664424",
    "synonym": false
}

Not sure what happened here...]]>
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2014-06-10 11:17:59.152
Updated: 2014-06-10 11:17:59.152
        
There definitely is a bug in the flattening of the taxonomy. The parent child relation seems to be fine:
http://www.gbif.org/species/5935275/classification

For some reason the genus key is empty. I dont really think its related, but the primary source of the species comes from paleaodb which also has no genus given: http://www.gbif.org/species/107664424