Issue 18418
Backbone synonyms with children
18418
Reporter: mdoering
Assignee: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: Backbone synonyms with children
Description: It seems that there are many taxon names marked as "*SYNONYM|MISAPPLIED" (7,756) or "DOUBTFUL" (4,836) for which there are direct children in the dataset.
Priority: Blocker
Status: Open
Created: 2016-04-20 10:14:43.616
Updated: 2017-02-22 12:34:21.366
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2016-07-27 12:43:51.667
Updated: 2016-07-27 12:43:51.667
This is mostly only true for deleted taxa.
When looking at the current ones only there are only 9380 genus synonyms with accepted children in the august 2016 backbone.
And this is caused by accepted species coming in for which the genus is considered a synonym. The species should have been transferred to the newly accepted genus, even though the names dont match up and should have been recombined
Examples:
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6385524 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Urostachys Herter | 2688549 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Urostachys hippurideus (Christ ex Pittier) Herter ex Nessel
2731020 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Raynalia Sojak | 2720075 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Raynalia lipocarphioides (Kuk. ex Peter) Soják
2720031 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Diemisa Raf. | 2724785 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Diemisa cephalophora (Muhl.) Raf.
6676284 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Cryptobasis Nevski | 2748287 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Cryptobasis tianschanica (Vved.) Nevski
2801479 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Humboldtia Ruiz & Pav. | 2800473 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Humboldtia laurifolia Kuntze
7320239 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Epidorchis Thouars | 2805208 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Epidorchis exilis Kuntze
7320232 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Epigeneium Gagnep. | 2819387 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Epigeneium amplum (Lindl. ex Wall.) Summerh.
7320966 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Odontoglossum Kunth | 2821213 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Odontoglossum chestertoni Hort.
7320357 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Sayeria Kraenzl. | 2822439 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Sayeria pseudotokai (Krzl.) Rauschert
2836347 | GENUS | SYNONYM | Sphyrastylis Schltr. | 2833247 | SPECIES | ACCEPTED | Sphyrastylis cryptantha (G.Schweinf. & P.H.Allen) Garay
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