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From @mdoering on January 17, 2017 9:4

Our backbone currently has the genus Camelus as:

Camelus Linnaeus, 1758
  = Camelius Bowdich, 1821
  = Camellus Molina, 1782
  = Dromedarius Gloger, 1841
  = Paracamelus Schlosser, 1903
 Camelus dromedarius Linnaeus, 1758
     = Camelus arabicus Desmoulins, 1823
     = Camelus ferus Falk, 1786
    Camelus dromedarius dromedarius
    Camelus dromedarius subsp. ferus Falk, 1786  [from ICZN]
 Camelus bactrianus Przewalski, 1878
    Camelus bactrianus bactrianus
    Camelus bactrianus ferus Przewalski, 1878
 Camelus guanicoe Müller, 1776
 Camelus ferus Przewalski, 1878

"C. bactrianus ferus" is in fact now considered a full species C. ferus (with an IUCN red list assessment: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/63543/0).

According to Wikipedia, recent research has shown that these wild Bactrian Camels are not feral domesticated Bactrian Camels but share a more distant ancestor. Hence the name C. ferus has been elevated to be considered a third species (critically endangered), corresponding to small populations of wild two-humped camels.

Copied from original issue: gbif/checklistbank#15

Would be nice if https://github.com/gbif/backbone-patch/blob/master/patch.csv is rendered nicely on GitHub.

Would require commas to be escaped in "quotes" and data be separated by tab or comma (not ;)

Newly described wasp species named for John La Salle

Five of our specimens, identified as Peridea angulosa (Notodontidae), are being matched to Periga angulosa (Saturniidae) in the GBIF backbone.

reported by Bryan Brunet

Asteraceae and Fabaceae are not accepted by COL and we should probably make them synonyms!

https://www.gbif.org/species/search?rank=FAMILY&dataset_key=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&constituent_key=daacce49-b206-469b-8dc2-2257719f3afa&highertaxon_key=220&status=ACCEPTED&status=DOUBTFUL&advanced=1

See also gbif/portal-feedback#3883

Interesting citizen science find by some Danish grade-school kids through an SNM project:
https://snm.ku.dk/SNMnyheder/alle_nyheder/2018/2018.7/boern-finder-ny-potentielt-invasiv-myreart/

Don't know any authoritative sources for Formicidae, but the backbone is definitely missing T. immigrans, despite having what appears to be 160-odd unmatched records for an allegedly cosmopolitan species…

[I think I may know them in its native range, as 'pavement ants'—we treated domestic incursions with borax…]

I have some cases were a fuzzy match is suggested instead of an exact match:

Brassica rapa subsp. rapa

http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?verbose=false&name=Brassica%20rapa%20subsp.%20rapa&strict=true

Fuzzy matches with Brassica rapa var. laxa (Tsen & S.H.Lee) Hanelt, rather than exact matching with http://www.gbif.org/species/7225636 (an accepted name)

Petricola pholadiformis

http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?verbose=false&name=Petricola%20pholadiformis&strict=true

Fuzzy matches with Petricolaria pholadiformis (Lamarck, 1818) (different genus), rather than exact matching with http://www.gbif.org/species/8180054 (a synonym of the suggested name)

I hope I'm not overlooking something this time 👓

This is probably more a match service issue, but the match for Lamiastrum galeobdolon: http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?verbose=false&name=Lamiastrum%20galeobdolon&strict=true

Is Lamiastrum galeobdolon (L.) Ehrend. & Polatschek (http://gbif.org/species/2927323) which is a synonym.

While Lamium galeobdolon (L.) L. (http://www.gbif.org/species/2927324), which is the accepted name, is an equally good match and probably preferred as a match.

I suggest we add scientificNameID and namePublishedInID to the fields in the dataset. scientificNameID will help match the name with nomenclature data sets as and when they become available. For example, LSIDs for ION, IPNI, etc., UUIDs for Zoobank, and so on. This would also make it easier to locate names to be "retired" once they are available from "trusted checklists".

Adding namePublishedInID enables us to link directly to evidence (e.g., DOIs for relevant publication that published the name). I guess dcterms;references does this as well, although that is less specific than say "the name was published in this publication".