I think we were typing at the same time. Most likely while a common name it was entered as a scientific name as the lexicon. If that is done, you need to edit it to set as inactive first, save it, then go into delete it. If entered under any language, you should not be getting a note saying a replacement is neeed, as common names are not mandatory data.
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