Hi everyone, In the last few weeks I’ve fixed (deleted) quite a few instances where someone has added the name of a species that is missing from our taxonomy as a synonym of the parent genus. This results in searches for the missing taxon redirecting to the genus. I suspect someone well-meaning bu…

Missing species being added as synonyms to their genus

jwidness July 22, 2020, 11:51pm 2

Are you sure they’re not faulty name imports? E.g.:

Topic		Replies	Views
Valid species being added (apparently by "search external name providers") as a synonym to the genus Bug Reports	14	922	October 6, 2020
Taxon unknown for database Bug Reports	3	308	November 16, 2019
What to do when species are not in the iNaturalist database General	4	1389	November 1, 2019
Name importer improvements - wiki Curators curation	16	1590	April 14, 2021
Name importer adds duplicate taxon when searching by alternate name Bug Reports curation	4	528	October 9, 2020