I’m not sure if i did something wrong. I created and executed a split: Taxonomic Split 100567 (Committed on 2021-10-24) · iNaturalist but it seems like the observations haven’t moved to their output taxa (only one of them is atlased because the distribution of the other is very wide and boundaries a…

The output taxa must be different from the input taxon, even if they have the same name. So you have to create a new output taxon (see details in the curator guide ). I’m not sure what exactly happens if this isn’t done correctly, but it doesn’t look like anything actually happened and you could do i…

Both output taxa need to be atlased: We’ve made some changes that allow curators the flexibility, if they choose, to make Taxon Splits where the input taxon is also one of the output taxa. In some ways, this approach is analogous to using a taxon swap to broaden an existing taxon (e.g. Species X) …

Since you didn’t atlas H. hermes, it left alone all the H. hermes IDs outside Trinidad and Tobago, and it bumped the ones in Trinidad and Tobago up to genus. I don’t think there’s a way to retroactively assign those genus IDs down to H. canthe, so you might want to ask staff to roll back the taxon…

Thanks. This is so counterintuitive. Because i thought that given that the Trinidad ones have been atlased then it should have swapped them for canthe and kept the rest but instead it did the exact opposite. Wow So would this mean that both the input and output taxa ALL have to be atlased before th…

My understanding is that to be conservative, the new ID is only assigned when it is unambiguous, and leaving some input taxa un-atlased makes the output ambiguous. Maybe that’s more conservative than people expect or want?

I just made a new observation and discovered a curious situation that might relate to this topic. My observation 99272403 was Hygrophorus chrysodon. I checked out the main page for H. chrysodon and saw there were 338 observations, but when I went to taxonomy it appears that a split was done at some …

[image] atronoxychump: both the input and output taxa ALL have to be atlased before the split is performed? The input taxon does not need to be atlased, unless it is also being used as an output taxon. But yes, all output taxa need to be atlased to maximize unambiguous reassignment of IDs. …

[image] jdmore: This is no longer necessary - see this blog post . Ah thanks I’d forgotten about that. Curator guide should be updated then.

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