Do not attach an authorship to names of orders or above

17906
Reporter: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: Do not attach an authorship to names of orders or above
Description: Names only up to superfamily should have an authorship as these are governed by the codes
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2015-10-21 21:12:34.384
Updated: 2015-12-23 11:18:37.261
Resolved: 2015-12-23 11:18:20.763

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2015-12-23 11:18:20.904
Updated: 2015-12-23 11:18:37.254
        
Removing authorship for families and above: https://github.com/gbif/checklistbank/commit/c7f034b8c7c31d7a7f8f17214060461161f81478

As we have a rather vague interpretation of the taxonomy of higher ranks it is better to not use any authorship. The Catalog of Life also does not use them on families: http://www.gbif.org/species/search?dataset_key=7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b&rank=FAMILY