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<div class="">the species count on the species page represents the species our backbone taxonomy contains for this phylum regardless whether we have occurrences or not.</div>
<div class="">The distinct species in your occurrences are less cause for some species we do not have any evidence.</div>
<div class="">Btw, in the upcoming portal you can see the list of distinct, accepted species right away: </div>
<div class=""><a href="https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/species?taxon_key=79" class="">https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/species?taxon_key=79</a> (select species instead of table view)</div>
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<div class="">On 4 Apr 2017, at 18:06, Srini Anand <<a href="mailto:srianand@umail.iu.edu" class="">srianand@umail.iu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I'm a student from Indiana University, working towards a Masters in Data Science. As part of a class project, we are working with the team from Global Biointeractions (GloBI) to compare how much their data covers the known
species list. To that end we are using GBIF as the reference system. </div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I have worked out the details of navigating your site and extracting information for us to compare against. However, I'm unable to reconcile counts between the download and what I see on the species page.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><b class="">Mismatch in species count</b></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Using Kingdom = Archaea and Phylum = <a href="http://www.gbif.org/species/79" target="_blank" class="">Crenarchaeota</a>, I navigated to the Occurrences page and downloaded the 3,824 occurrences. When I extract unique
Species from this list, there are 59, whereas the main page indicates there should be 68. </div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I see a similar issue with </div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">a) Kingdom = Archaea (should be 523, see 485) </div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">b) Class = Pinopsida (should be 2,366 species, but see 983) </div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">There is probably a small and obvious mistake I'm making, but not sure I know how to identify that.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Any guidance would be must appreciated.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Regards,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><b class="">Srini Anand</b></div>
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