Hi, this indeed is a problem of our name parser. Actually this is a rather tricky problem as a zoological subgenus notation using brackets is nearly impossible to tell apart from a genus name with an original author.
We refactored the name parser some time ago to take the rank of a name into account to be able to differ between those 2 options: http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2624
But it seems we have some outdated data hanging around here. The parser returns the correct canonical even without the rank given: http://api.gbif.org/v1/parser/name?name=Ficus%20(Diconoficus)
Ill try to reparse all names in checklist bank.
Markus
On 01 Feb 2016, at 09:22, Roderic Page <Roderic.Page@glasgow.ac.ukmailto:Roderic.Page@glasgow.ac.uk> wrote:
Looks like the issue is with GBIF’s handling of data, rather than the data source itself.
For the subgenus we have http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/100969508:
"scientificName":"Ficus (Diconoficus)”, "canonicalName":”Ficus”, "authorship":" (Diconoficus)”
so the subgenus has mistakenly been treated as the authorship of the name.
For the species, GBIF ignores subgenera and so regards Ficus gayana as the canonical name.
Regards
Rod
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On 31 Jan 2016, at 23:32, Nozomi James Ytow <nozomi@biol.tsukuba.ac.jpmailto:nozomi@biol.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
Diconoficus
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