Species match service fails to match known species of viruses

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Reporter: kbraak
Type: Bug
Summary: Species match service fails to match known species of viruses
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-09-25 15:06:56.12
Updated: 2016-02-11 11:43:56.03
        
Description: Foot-and-mouth disease virus is a species in the GBIF Backbone:
http://www.gbif.org/species/6876902

Using the Species match service (e.g. /species/match) it should be possible to match this species, specifying the kingdom and name for example:

http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?kingdom=viruses&name=Foot-and-mouth%20disease%20virus

The same goes for Banana bunchy top virus http://www.gbif.org/species/6875716

http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?kingdom=viruses&name=Banana%20bunchy%20top%20virus

Unfortunately, these only matches the kingdom, not the species as you would expect.

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Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2015-04-01 14:55:31.505
Updated: 2015-04-01 14:55:31.505
        
We only have less than 9000 virus records in our index:
http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?TAXON_KEY=8