Discover and flag potential zoological synonyms in nub

13574
Reporter: mdoering
Assignee: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: Discover and flag potential zoological synonyms in nub
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Duplicate
Status: Resolved
Created: 2013-08-08 00:44:26.66
Updated: 2015-10-11 11:52:14.418
Resolved: 2015-10-11 11:52:14.389
        
Description: It is common practice in zoological taxonomy to not track older recombinations of a species name, i.e. most synonyms there missing. If a species is being transferred to a new genus and our backbone is assembled from 2 or more sources that have both species names (for pretty much the same taxon) the nub ends up having both while one should really be a synonym.

Rod Page has pledged for using RDF SPARQL to query for such cases:
http://iphylo.blogspot.de/2013/08/a-use-case-for-rdf-in-taxonomy.html

As a first test we should query the backbone for species in the same family that share the same specific epithet. If there are too many false positives we could try to also include the author if existing. species epithet and author being the same but having a different genus name is a very, very high indication of being the same taxon and nub builds should probably check for those!]]>
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: There is a newer already fixed duplicate: http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-398
Created: 2015-10-11 11:52:14.416
Updated: 2015-10-11 11:52:14.416