Can we please also have an author field. This is a can of worms, but often there are the same species name but with different authors that are unrelated concepts. Curating these is a pain, because it is easy to be unaware of another concept when reviewing names. In future, guidelines and standard…

Include author citations for taxa

bouteloua February 27, 2019, 2:09pm 3

I think you could/should start a separate feature request for including author citations attached to each taxon.

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