Now and again taxon names are created that include the describing author, e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1281196-Commiphora-pteleifolia-engl I tried a couple of ways to correct this by editing the taxon associated names but my attempts failed with different error messages and I can’t edit th…

There’s a bug in the name importer causing this. All(?) names imported from EOL in the last month or so with the author listed there have been import incorrectly. Only staff or the creator of the taxon can edit the name. The majority of the other malformed names have been fixed with taxon swaps.

Scientific names of taxa can’t be edited unless you manually created it. Since these come from the auto importer; the only option is to create the proper name and swap the malformed one I to it via a taxon swap.

When it doesn’t have any IDs yet, you can just inactivate it (and create the properly named one if it doesn’t exist yet).

How do I remove author from base taxon name?

Curators

jdmore September 16, 2021, 11:55pm 3

Just adding the link to the Bug Report for cross-reference.

Topic		Replies	Views
Correcting Latin name Curators	2	499	December 26, 2019
Include "Add a taxon swap" option on taxa I created in Edit view Feature Requests web	8	707	December 24, 2020
Auto-importer adding taxon names with the author included Bug Reports web	9	872	November 14, 2021
Editing a species name spelling Curators	4	682	February 16, 2023
Allow taxon curators to edit taxon names, reducing "pointless" taxon changes for fixes like epithet ending changes or adding hybrid symbols Feature Requests web , under-review	45	5028	October 3, 2025

How do I remove author from base taxon name?

Related topics