What’s the correct way to rename a species to include the ‘×’ hybrid designation? The only way to seem to do it is create a new taxon with the ‘×’ and then perform a taxon swap. PS. It also looks like iNat is using a space between the ‘×’ and species name - is this a defined standard? My state herb…

[image] bouteloua: Space or no space is optional, at least in the plant code, and it’d be nice to be consistent, so I’ve been keeping the space. Yes, me too. And when I add a hybrid taxon, I also add the various permutations as non-accepted synonyms, to make sure people can always look it up…

Any change to a name (unless you are the person who created the taxa) can only be done via a taxa swap.

Or by getting one of the staff to update it. [image] Improvements to taxonomic curation on iNat - wiki Allow more users to edit taxon names to reduce “pointless” taxon changes for things like typing/spelling mistakes, e.g. epithet ending in “-a” vs. “-us” or hybrid symbol “x” → “×” Kew’s Pla…

thanks all - I already did a swap yesterday - the species is Pterostylis toveana BTW

[image] jdmore: Salix x sepulcralis Should the name not be the hybrid formula? Salix alba × babylonica and Salix × sepulcralis is a synonym? Strictly taxonomists merely retain hybrid names because they were originally described as species and subsequently been found to be hybrids (i.e. th…

[image] reiner: What’s the correct way to rename a species to include the ‘×’ hybrid designation? The only way to seem to do it is create a new taxon with the ‘×’ and then perform a taxon swap. [image] bouteloua: Or by getting one of the staff to update it. I’ve since created this (mou…

[image] tonyrebelo: But I guess we need a directive as to whether iNat prefers hybrid formulae to their botanical synonyms. The curator guide does not even mention hybrid formulae. Yes, thanks for pointing out this discrepancy - actually it looks like the Curator Guide mentions only hybrid f…

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bouteloua August 7, 2020, 12:42pm 7

I’ve since created this (mouthful of a) feature request which has garnered a moderate amount of support so far: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-taxon-curators-to-edit-taxon-names-reducing-pointless-taxon-changes-for-fixes-like-epithet-ending-changes-or-adding-hybrid-symbols/15050

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