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	952	October 6, 2020
What to do when species are not in the iNaturalist database General	4	1482	November 1, 2019
New taxa not in INat for some species and taxa synonyms problems General question , taxonomy	10	1099	October 3, 2020
Creation of multiple copies of already existing taxa Bug Reports web	21	1943	November 27, 2020
Name importer improvements - wiki Curators curation	16	1618	April 14, 2021