Hi James,
I am not sure if I understand the problem. If you search the GBIF backbone for Lembus you get 2 records. One synonym without descendants and one accepted taxon: http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/?name=Lembus&datasetKey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f3... http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/?name=Lembus&datasetKey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c
That looks correct to me and the synonym also does not return any children correctly: http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/2386427/children http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/2386427/children
We did change the underlying checklistbank database today which introduces considerable new data as all data in there has been freshly crawled from scratch. Datasets that have been offline, e.g. NZOR, are therefore currently still missing.
We also had some issue indexing wikipedia and Index Fungorum, so those 2 are also not yet in but I hope to get those indexed over the weekend latest. Lacking wikipedia unfortunately means there are much less vernacular names, descriptions and images available also for the GBIF backbone.
The backbone itself has not changed at all.
Markus
On 29 Jul 2015, at 16:15, Nozomi James Ytow nozomi@biol.tsukuba.ac.jp wrote:
Hi,
is there any modification made in numDescendants in species/?name response?
For example, http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/?name=Lembus returened one record with 2 descendants (I remember it as http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/102321492 ) and two records with 16 descendatns arournt 2015-07-29 04:00 UTC (ish) but now only one record of GBIF Backborn Taxonomy with 16 descendants and others have no descendants.
http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/?name=Lembus%20infusionum was shered lower name in there three records. http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/102321493 is one of Lembus infusionum which has parentKey 102321492. The parent key is the record had two descandants.
The modified implementation requires to try /species/{int}/children even if numDescendants is zero, because there may be descendants. I prefer to the previous implementation to navigate classifications.
James
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