Hi,
I recently found a species for which the senior synonym is listed as its junior and placed the junior as the valid name:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/318788-Panstrongylus-herreri
P. lignarius is the valid name and P. herreri a junior synonym (see https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822017000300434#B2 ).
Unofrtunately, GBIF listed these two names the other way around (https://www.gbif.org/species/159524595 ) were P. lignarius is ignored. But in this page https://www.gbif.org/species/9253975 is listed as a valid species.
Is there any easy way to fix this in INaturalist?
Thanks.
Dimitri
It can only be done via a taxon swap. You need to create a new species record with the proper name and then swap the existing one into it.
It can not be done by editing the existing record.
Thanks! So, I need to create a new species (P. lignarius ) within the genus and then swap the desired name with the new one, right? And this despite having P. lignarius listed as synonym of P. herreri ? See:
Thanks!
Correct, with one exception which is if you manually created the species, the scientific name associated with a record can not be edited.
Thank you! It worked perfectly.
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