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Taxonomic Swap 61269 (Committed on 2019-08-18)

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Added by ajwright on August 18, 2019 08:47 PM | Committed by ajwright on August 18, 2019
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@rynxs Looks like POWO now has B. tikushiensis as a synonym of B. japonica - I'm not sure why it was previously B. fortunei. Can this be rectified?

Posted by ajwright about 1 year ago

@ajwright yeah, they do that sometimes, much to everyone's annoyance. Here are all the affected observations (there appear to only be 2, with duplicates for the extra IDs): https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications?taxon_id=882828&rank=species&taxon_active=false&current=false

I think all you can do on a swap this old is delete the synonym and add it to the other species, leaving comments or IDs on the affected observations. Doesn't look like this will take much to fix.

Posted by rynxs about 1 year ago

Thanks. I've added B. tikushiensis (Hayata) Laferr. (in addition to M. tikushiensis Hayata) as a synonym. Any inclusion of that basionym in B. fortunei makes zero sense, opening the possibility that I made a mistake, given that B. tikushiensis has been synonymized with B. japonica forever, and that those species are nothing alike - but I managed to link the correct page, so I guess that's a point toward my absolution.

Posted by ajwright about 1 year ago

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