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Description of need:
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Feature request details:
If a subspecies is endemic to a particular locale, and I want to mark it as such, the process (as described by @bouteloua here) is quite convoluted, and not as straightforward as marking EM at a species level:
- Look up the country or locale for the taxon
- Scroll all the way to the bottom and click the (tiny) View Check List page
- Change the “rank” filter from “species” to “any”
- Search the subspecies by the full trinomial name
- Click on the Edit button
- Modify Established Means from “unknown” to “endemic”
- Save
This makes it hard to mark subspecies of particular importance for conservation as endemic with a few clicks. Annotating all endemic subspecies for a given place following this process is very time consuming. I’d like to request that Establishment Means data be directly editable from a Taxon page’s Status tab (similar to how common names can be added from the taxon page), see for example the entry for Tiaris olivaceus ssp. ravidus below:
The process would involve adding a new record, looking up the locale (e.g. a country) and selecting the relevant EM value.