Handling of homonyms?

[turley85]

What is the best practice for managing homonyms?

Two commons homonyms in our alert lists are Prosopis and Salvinia - which are homonyms of both plants and animals.

Should I edit supplied name to match the ALA taxonomy (e.g Prosopis L. and Salvinia Ség.)? Or should I leave it as provided (Prosopis and Salvinia)? And how will the alert system know we're searching of the plant (not animal) if left unmatched?

[turley85]

Eg. Salvinia is a synonym of this beetle https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/cd4ad7da-4869-4897-966d-6cbcdc129389#names

This is the weeds we're seeking: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2908448

[turley85]

Eg. Prosopis animal: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/d326831d-bf60-4146-8d07-e72391307b13#classification

Prosopis weed: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51436746

[turley85]

Related issue - here an unmatched taxa Phytoplama (kingdom Bacteria) is incorrectly matching to the plant genus phytoplama

BioSecurity alert for xTestListMissingTaxa

Example occurrences:
https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/c41a29af-3c37-4f87-90d0-089cac410a15
https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/c03e71d3-b510-478c-8600-c49f2792b8a5

[kylie-m]

Hi @turley85 I've been chatting with the team on this, to my understanding it should be functioning as per the current R alerts - happy to chat about it more if needed, though it does sound like this would be an enhancement to the current setup

[turley85]

@kylie-m Yeah, this should be an enhancement. Make me wondering if R alerts for homonyms is just failing.