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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks Kathryn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This happens when you provide a classification where the terminal taxa is not known to the backbone taxonomy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">What it returns is the higher node in the tree that matches, and stating it with the “HIGHER_RANK” flag.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Periodically we rebuild the backbone using the best available checklists. If you find cases where this happens the best approach today would be to help register good checklists through which we can build the backbone.
The next backbone build is likely to happen within the next 2-3 months. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Tim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">API-users <api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org> on behalf of Kathryn Reynolds <K.Reynolds@cabi.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 10.59<br>
<b>To: </b>"api-users@lists.gbif.org" <api-users@lists.gbif.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[API-users] rgbif - species match with higher rank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am using the <i>rgbif</i> package to match up names in a database with the accepted name on gbif (<i>name_lookup</i>). In the output for some instances, the data returned is for the species, and the species exists on GBIF. However, the
match type is “<i>higher rank</i>” (see attached file for a sample). I was wondering if anyone could explain to me why this is the case? It seems to be happening most often with bacterial or parasitic species…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p>
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