factsmission/synospecies

clean up of Trex taxonomic names authority annotation

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myrmoteras commented

@nleanba @flsimoes @gsautter @millerjeremya @retog @jugiora

Following our discussion yesterday and the followup with Guido, here is the proposed way to resolve the authorities.

  1. It is more efficient to clean up the wrong authorityName/baseAuthorityName manually.
  2. A list of all the treatments is here including treatmentCitations, and here without treatmentCitations. This includes all the conflicting names listed here , not sure whether this also includes all using the query for Trex @nleanba provided yesterday.
  3. The following rules apply to annotate in animalis taxonomic names: baseAuthorityName is used for new combinations
    authorityName is used for new species or augmentation of species that are in the original combination
  4. Can Jeremy and Felipe discuss how to split this work`?
  5. Can @flsimoes @jugiora document this in the manual and training material?
gsautter commented

One remark here: the links to the stats that @myrmoteras included above show the treatments listed in #178 , and thus does not include the "(Many)" treatments listed under "Animalia/Tyrannosaurus_rex — Osborn, 1905" ... since these seem to be correct, that should not be a problem, just wanted to make it clear.

gsautter commented

Another thing that has me utterly baffled is this treatment: https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/html/6D5B047F403546462FE8FA8CFA0712EB
It has "Aublysodon mirandus Leidy, 1868" as its taxon, looking like the original combination it likely is, also citing "Aublysodon mirandus Leidy, 1868" in the same way.
However, the treatment citation right below the latter one reads "Aublysodon mirandus (LEIDY) Cope, 1869", as if "Aublysodon mirandus" wasn't the original combination, and "Leidy" was the author of whatever is the basionym of that combination ...

So, why is "Aublysodon mirandus" cited in two different ways here, more importantly, giving the authority in two different and contradictory ways? Thanks for some insight ...