Ebenaceae, tropical tree family found in the atlantic
11062
Reporter: mdoering
Assignee: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: Ebenaceae, tropical tree family found in the atlantic
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2012-05-11 09:27:31.111
Updated: 2013-12-09 13:40:34.163
Resolved: 2012-05-11 12:34:38.388
Description: http://data.gbif.org/species/6709/
pointed out by Alastair Culham, Reading in a talk. Seems to be confide with fungi records]]>
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2012-05-11 09:29:51.694
Updated: 2012-05-11 09:29:51.694
first few records inspected have wrong coordinates and we warn people:
http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/235749006
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2012-05-11 09:42:37.412
Updated: 2012-05-11 12:11:05.083
Lots of records in the north atalantic from the Continuous Plankton Recorder database report the species "Paralia sulcata"
http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/12899486/
GBIF classification:
Kingdom: PlantaeClass: BacillariophycaeOrder: CentralesFamily: MelosiraceaeGenus: ParaliaSpecies: Paralia sulcata
Source classification
Kingdom: PLANTAE
Class: BACILLARIOPHYCAE
Order: CENTRALES
Family: MELOSIRACEAE
Genus: Paralia
Species: sulcata
This seems to be correct, also the nub entry is correct. No idea why these records show up on the map:
http://ecat-dev.gbif.org/usage/5421896
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2012-05-11 10:26:28.526
Updated: 2012-05-11 10:26:28.526
Looking at all names included in the nub Ebenaceae family there is the genus Paralia appearing, but no species. Plus a similar genus Paralea.
A simple nub lookup goes right though: http://cache.gbif.org/ws-nub/nub?name=Paralia%20sulcata
When you add all of the classification given though, the lookup links it to the (erroneous?) Ebenaceae genus Paralia:
http://cache.gbif.org/ws-nub/nub?name=Paralia%20sulcata&family=MELOSIRACEAE&order=CENTRALES&class=BACILLARIOPHYCAE&kingdom=plantae
This is likely to be because the classification is so different to the CoL one, which uses
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Coscinodiscophyceae
Order Paraliales
Family Paraliaceae
Genus Paralia
The wrongly matched homonym genus Paralia comes from IRMNG:
http://ecat-dev.gbif.org/usage/100488513
A better mapping of higher taxa in our synonym dictionaries should solve this issue!
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2012-05-11 10:36:50.849
Updated: 2012-05-11 10:36:50.849
for comparsion, here is the classification of the wrongly matched genus:
Kingdom Plantae +
Phylum Magnoliophyta -
Class Magnoliopsida -
Order Ebenales -
Family Ebenaceae -
Genus Paralia +
with synonym mappings for the query:
http://rs.gbif.org/dictionaries/synonyms/
BACILLARIOPHYCEAE Bacillariophyta
CENTRALES nothing
MELOSIRACEAE nothing
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2012-05-11 11:47:57.31
Updated: 2012-05-11 11:47:57.31
A straight binomial match should rate much higher to avoid the issue
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2012-05-11 12:34:33.916
Updated: 2012-05-11 12:34:33.916
increased rating of straight binomial matches and reduced penalty for mismatching kingdom Chromista cause its often treated differently.
Works on boma now: http://boma.gbif.org:8080/ws-nub/nub?name=Paralia%20sulcata&family=MELOSIRACEAE&order=CENTRALES&class=BACILLARIOPHYCAE&kingdom=plantae