"undefined" string in synonyms scientific name - 038C0022FFEDAA3669A9CBC826386A13

[camiplata]

CLB
https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/FFB5785AFFE7AA3A6921CA7D25136848

I check and the issue comes from Plazi DwC-A, so maybe is an export problem as I don't see it reflected on the Plazi website. Neither I could find a reference to a synonym inside the treatments

This dataset is also missing the authorship + year

[flsimoes]

The article has some citations of undefined species

It seems that all these you listed are such cases.

[camiplata]

I see, but even in that case is not a good practice to add "sp." or "undefined" on the dwc:scientificName, you could use dwc: verbatimIdentification and/or dwc:verbatimTaxonRank

[flsimoes]

@myrmoteras and Guido let me know your thoughts on the matter

[flsimoes]

I see, but even in that case is not a good practice to add "sp." or "undefined" on the dwc:scientificName, you could use dwc: verbatimIdentification and/or dwc:verbatimTaxonRank

We implemented the isUncertain = true attribute to such cases a while ago
Unfortunately this particular article was from before we implemented it. I've just added the attribute.

[camiplata]

@mdoering are we using the attribute isUncertain = true on our side? would it be enough to filter out this kind of names?

[mdoering]

isUncertain is probably some plazi internal treatment attribute.
Pheidole sp. eg-111 is a valid dwc:scientificName. We would not have a problem parsing that and it would result in an "informal" name category. Please don't use any verbatim dwc terms like verbatimIdentification. ChecklistBank doesn't use any of them as we are not dealing with occurrences.

We can improve things on our side, but it wouldn't be too bad:
https://api.checklistbank.org/parser/name?q=Pheidole%20sp.%20eg-111

The problem is the eg prefix, which makes the parser believe its a real epithet. Pure numbers work better:
https://api.checklistbank.org/parser/name?q=Pheidole%20sp.%20111

But that's sth we can improve