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Combination author swap?

Open timrobertson100 opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

If you look at this record you'll see

basionym": "Methanobacterium ruminantium Smith & Hungate, 1958",
"scientificName": "Methanobrevibacter ruminantium (Smith & Hungate, 1958) Balch & Wolfe, 1981",
"canonicalName": "Methanobrevibacter ruminantium",
"authorship": "Balch & Wolfe, 1981 (Smith & Hungate, 1958)",

It looks like combination authorship are correct in the scientific name but swapping in the authorship field?

timrobertson100 avatar Jan 20 '20 16:01 timrobertson100

indeed the order in authorship field is surprising. It is copied straight from the original source record which has the same oddity: https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/111210659

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mdoering avatar Feb 03 '20 13:02 mdoering

This is fixed in the API, but still present in the exported DwC-A

mdoering avatar Nov 25 '22 08:11 mdoering