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Alternatives with a hyphenated genus or without any genus are still read as name and author #228
Description
Two shapes of alternatives that #225 and #212 do not reach yet, found by replaying GBIF occurrence names against COL26.6 XR (315557) with build 0.4.1-20261102.000711-32. The epithet after the slash is still read as an author.
| Input | Current | Expected |
|---|---|---|
Pseudo-nitzschia pungens/multiseries |
species Pseudo-nitzschia pungens, author multiseries |
INFORMAL, genus Pseudo-nitzschia, phrase pungens/multiseries, as #225 |
Pseudo-nitzschia pungens or multiseries |
Pseudo-nitzschia pungens, rank infrasubspecific name, multiseries dropped |
the same, phrase pungens or multiseries |
Saint-Hilaireia rubra/alba |
species Saint-Hilaireia rubra, author alba |
INFORMAL, genus Saint-Hilaireia, phrase rubra/alba |
obsoletus/scoticus |
uninomial Obsoletus, author scoticus |
unparsable OTHER, no name to anchor on |
Hyphenated genus. The same names without the hyphen work, Culicoides obsoletus/scoticus is INFORMAL with genus Culicoides, so the #225 rule seems not to accept a hyphen in the genus.
Only epithets. A lower case word is capitalised into a uninomial, although nothing in obsoletus/scoticus is a genus. A bare obsoletus is already a placeholder. Related to Belaustium/microsmaris listed under "Left as they are" in #226, which has a real genus in front.
Impact. In names with at least 1,000 occurrences:
Pseudo-nitzschia pungens/multiseriesandPseudo-nitzschia fraudulenta/australis, 5,405 occurrences, match the first species as if it were the identification.obsoletus/scoticus, 104,265 occurrences of a Culicoides species complex in family Ceratopogonidae, matches the mosquito subgenusAedes (obsoletus). It would reach its family with no uninomial to match.
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