Recommendations for commonly used generic name that is misspelled

Curators
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Correct name Szepligetella
Commonly propogated typo (Szepligetiella)

Both names are in iNaturalist. How best do we handle this situation?

Source describing problem in GBIF:
https://github.com/rdmpage/taxonomy-GBIF-manuscript/blob/master/README.md#typographic-errors

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I’d recommend continuing the discussion on the flag, and then swapping one for the other. I would go with what the literature says.
https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/552577

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Thanks…I was confused by what to do: a swap, merge, drop, etc. I performed a swap with Szepligetiella as input and Szepligetella as output. Hopefully that’s correct.

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Closing to direct any further discussion to the flag linked above.