I am getting requests to fix taxa that appear to have been added as a synonym of the genus, instead of having been uploaded as separate species. Four in the last week. All from Zambia and from bartwursten These are in POWO as valid species, but are being added (apparently from the Encyclopaedia of…

OK, this should be fixed now. I was able to import Goodia macrocarpa via external name providers on our testing server and that fix is now live on the “real” iNat site.

Valid species being added (apparently by "search external name providers") as a synonym to the genus

Bug Reports

jdmore August 9, 2020, 9:11pm 4

Topic		Replies	Views
Missing species being added as synonyms to their genus Bug Reports web	19	1453	January 24, 2021
Note to curators: Ignore nonsensical synonyms on POWO General	7	846	November 11, 2021
Species name duplicated in different kingdoms (but not on iNaturalist)? General	3	391	June 2, 2020
Species search behaviour issue / bug Bug Reports	8	693	January 6, 2021
Multiple ungrafted instances of the same genus are being created, each with one or two species Curators	8	480	March 9, 2021

Valid species being added (apparently by "search external name providers") as a synonym to the genus

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