Species match too fuzzy in cases of terminal differences

16047
Reporter: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: Species match too fuzzy in cases of terminal differences
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2014-07-08 17:53:50.19
Updated: 2015-04-01 14:46:49.602
Resolved: 2015-04-01 14:46:49.582
        
Description: The plant name "Ficus sp." gets matches to a wrong species " instead of just matching it to the genus Ficus:  Ficus sprucei

http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/911489352/verbatim

We should make sure sp. is recognized as a unknown species placeholder (name parser does that) and that such large fizziness is not allowed!

See also other fuzzy matches in this french dataset:
http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?dataset_key=b5dc599c-2c51-4878-a92b-52f601f94335&issue=TAXON_MATCH_FUZZY]]>
    

Author: ahahn@gbif.org
Comment: Second example reported by Markus Eglund, 13.10.14: http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/233977377, in the original information, is "Spiraea sp.", but was mistakenly interpreted as "Spiraea sheikii Zare".
Created: 2014-10-14 11:40:52.753
Updated: 2014-10-14 11:40:52.753

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2015-04-01 14:46:49.6
Updated: 2015-04-01 14:46:49.6
        
Matches the genus now:
http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?kingdom=Plantae&name=Ficus%20sp.