Platform: Website URLs: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1046083-Ceropegia-humbertii Screenshots: [Capture] Description of problem: Unless I am missing something in the spelling etc Ceropegia humbertii is listed twice as a scientific name which is not supposed to be possible. FYI - by the ti…

Sometimes there can be weird things happening with invisible characters. I copied both to a spreadsheet into seperate fields, and then did a test to see if they are the same, and there is no difference at all. Looking in at the edit for each, they were both imported from eol (no user name associate…

This happens sometimes. We recently made a change to not allow it to happen again, although I don’t think that affects exisiting situations like this. I deleted the second name on our test server and nothing broke, so I did the same on the production site. Seems to be working OK.

Unless this change was very recent you may want to check if it is working as intended as this species was only created on March 13th.

Whatever the fix was it is not working (or at least the recommendation to delete). This taxa also has the problem. In order to delete one of the names, I have to set it to false as an accepted scientific name, since you can not delete an active scientific name. When I try to do so,and save, I get a…

Sorry if I messed up the example, but I was able to delete one of the two copies, without needing to change its accepted status or anything first. Must have been the copy not linked to the taxon at its creation. But I can verify that there were two copies of the same accepted scientific name there…

I think the problem is that the name importer is bringing in synonyms/alternate names: [image] [image] [image] [image] Both of these are recent, one from COL and one from EOL. The name importer is both failing to check whether the “alternate” names are identical to another name, and fa…

Already the second time it’s happened just today… [image]

Here’s a taxon where one name was correctly marked unaccepted, but the other wasn’t: [image] The EOL page it came from: [image]

Duplicated scientific name on taxon page

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jwidness August 14, 2020, 8:03pm 21

I hadn’t seen any exact duplicates for a while, but this just came in from EOL:

Topic		Replies	Views
Name importer adds duplicate taxon when searching by alternate name Bug Reports curation	4	568	October 9, 2020
Creation of multiple copies of already existing taxa Bug Reports web	21	2039	November 27, 2020
Missing species being added as synonyms to their genus Bug Reports web	19	1683	January 24, 2021
Valid species being added (apparently by "search external name providers") as a synonym to the genus Bug Reports	13	1076	September 14, 2020
Multiple ungrafted instances of the same genus are being created, each with one or two species Curators	7	568	January 8, 2021

Duplicated scientific name on taxon page

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