strikethrough-ed subspecies name ?

[Adam Winer]

Original issue 124 created by adam_winer on 2013-11-06T14:53:54.000Z:

I've noticed that when going into "browse by species" with "show subspecies", some subspecies names appeared strikethrough-ed. I assumed until now that it was the case when a new taxonomy had rendered a formerly recognized subspecies invalid but it appears not to be the case in at least one instance : zoothera dauma iriomotensis, which is still valid in IOC 3.5 (http://www.worldbirdnames.org/n-sugarbirds.html) Am i missing something ? YM

[Adam Winer]

Comment #1 originally posted by adam_winer on 2013-11-06T23:33:22.000Z:

This happens in some particularly unpleasant taxonomic cases, where:

• There's no completely matching Clements subspecies
• The Clements species taxonomy doesn't match IOC, and there wasn't an automatically discoverable mapping to an underlying Clements species.

Basically, Clements is still used as the underlying storage; there's a bit of fancy stepping to deal with a large majority of subspecies missing in Clements, but it's not 100%.

[Adam Winer]

This is basically done now. There's a tiny number of striked out remains, but they are very very few.