Taxonomic Swap 43641 (Committed on 2019-01-17)

Genetics show the San Bernadino squirrels should be a subspecies of the newly recognized G. oregonensis.

Genetic data reveal a cryptic species... (Citation)
Added by jwidness on November 29, 2018 04:15 AM | Committed by jwidness on January 17, 2019
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@loarie this seems like a pretty straightforward swap

Posted by jwidness over 5 years ago

Quoting from Arbogast 2017:

The mtDNA control region sequence data presented here show that although flying squirrels from California are part of the Pacific Coastal mtDNA clade (i.e., G. oregonensis), they are notably divergent from the non-California members of the PC clade.
Our proposed taxonomic change affects subspecies nomenclature in the following ways: 5 subspecies (G. s. californicus, G. s. lascivus, G. s. stephensi, G. s. flaviventris, and G. s. klamathensis) would clearly fall under G. oregonensis and would therefore require the requisite taxonomic change.

Posted by jwidness over 5 years ago

@jwidness there is a taxon framework for mammals that only extends down to species. Since this only involves ssp you should be able to make this swap correct? Before taxon frameworks 'complete taxa' always went down to ssp so this wouldn't have worked then, but the new system should accomodate this unless there's a bug

Also let me know if you want to help curate the mammal taxonomy covered by the framework - right now its using IUCN GMA - not sure if folks are still advocating moving to ASM

Posted by loarie over 5 years ago

@loarie I'm getting the message:
Heads up: One or both of the input taxa involved in this change are within a taxon framework Only site admins or curators of that taxon framework can commit changes affecting covered taxa.

I assume this is because the swap moves the subspecies from one species epithet to a different one, so technically involves a change at the species level.

I'd be happy to help curate mammal taxonomy.

Posted by jwidness over 5 years ago

hmm - that should be allowed so this is a bug. Let me look into this

Posted by loarie over 5 years ago

I was able to add the subspecies G. o. californicus, I just couldn't swap it for G. s. californicus.

Posted by jwidness over 5 years ago

@loarie any progress on this bug?

Posted by jwidness over 5 years ago

@loarie I still don't have an option to commit this, so I'm assuming the bug is still there and I'm not a curator for mammals yet?

Posted by jwidness about 5 years ago

working on this but not done - thanks for your patience

Posted by loarie about 5 years ago

No problem, sorry to keep bothering you.

Posted by jwidness about 5 years ago

@jwidness - this should be fixed. (e.g. iNat should realize that Glaucomys oregonensis californicus is not covered by a curated taxon framework and therefore not protected) Can you try committing this?

Posted by loarie about 5 years ago

The commit worked -- i.e. G. o. californicus replaced G. s. californicus (which is now inactive), but I'm not seeing IDs auto-updated. Not sure if I did something wrong or I just need to wait?

Posted by jwidness about 5 years ago

prob just need to wait

Posted by loarie about 5 years ago

Yep, I checked back seconds before the outage and it was updated, but I couldn't get a comment in before it went down.

Posted by jwidness about 5 years ago

cool!

Posted by loarie about 5 years ago

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