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Katja Schulz commented on "Species with funny English names":
@Deniz Martinez: This species is fairly new (described in 2009) and hasn't found its way into our source databases. I have created a new record for it. It should arrive on EOL within a few days. Once it get here, you should be able to find it here: http://eol.org/Archipheretima%20middletoni
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Katja Schulz commented on "EOL Curators":
@Michael Wunderli: If you find a source that has information about these spiders, we can try to engage them as a content partner. They would have to be willing to release their content under a creative commons license, though. In this particular example, we could grab (i.e., copy & paste manually) the original description from BHL along with a few anatomical drawings for this species (could be uploaded through our Rapid Response LifeDesk). Unfortunately, there was no habitus drawing in the original description. For many of these species it may be difficult to get anything beyond the original description, and many may never have been illustrated fully.
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Katja Schulz commented on "EOL Curators":
@Michael Wunderli: All the Haploclastus species are here: http://eol.org/pages/111544/overview Or is that not what you meant?
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Katja Schulz commented on "Taxon Concept Management To Do List":
@Michael Wunderli: You said: "When you search for this species you get 5 different species pages all with the exact same name as a result." -- The first hit is the actual species page, the other ones are Toxoplasma gondii strains that we get from NCBI. I hesitate to merge all of these strains with the species concept, especially since some of them are slated for whole genome sequencing, e.g.: http://genomesonline.org/cgi-bin/GOLD/bin/GOLDCards.cgi?goldstamp=Gi10783 So at some point this strain may actually turn into something that's worth having a taxon page for.
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Katja Schulz commented on "":
Linné described it as Strombus Pes pelecani: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25034553
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Katja Schulz commented on "Taxon Concept Management To Do List":
@Michael Wunderli: Triticum durum is a subspecies of T. turgidum according to the new, molecular taxonomy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy_of_wheat But there are still lots of sources that use the traditional taxonomy where durum is treated at the species level. I think it would be premature to force all EOL Triticum concepts to conform to the new taxonomy. I would want to do that only under the guidance of a Triticum specialist.
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Katja Schulz commented on "Taxon Concept Management To Do List":
@Michael Wunderli: It looks like the status of Prunus insititia is controversial: http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-27800333 http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29952771 You can manipulate the name shown as the title of the page by selecting the preferred classification in the Names Tab.
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Katja Schulz commented on "PIC_WVU13363":
It looks like this image is mislabeled. This is some kind of an angiosperm.
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Katja Schulz commented on "File:Bem-Te-Vi.jpg":
Found this in Unreviewed status, although there is a record of Cyndy trusting it a year ago.
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Katja Schulz commented on "Berthelinia chloris (Dall, 1918)":
Apparently, this gastropod was initially described as a bivalve in the genus Scintilla. But Scintilla chloris Dall, 1918 has since been identified as a synonym of Berthelinia chloris (Dall, 1918). This leads to Scintilla chloris Dall, 1918 being listed as a bivalve in the NMNH IZ catalogue. Is there any way this could be fixed?
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Katja Schulz commented on "Trigonostoma (Trigonostoma) antiquata Holotype USNM 747301":
Error corrected at source.
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Katja Schulz commented on "Berthella californica (Dall, 1900)":
@Cindy Manning: Hi Cindy, that's a great video! To make it available to EOL, you need to release it under a creative commons license and add taxonomic tags. Please see instructions here: http://education.eol.org/sites/default/files/Share_EOL_YouTube_%20Instructions.pdf Let me know if you need any additional information.
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Katja Schulz commented on Katja Schulz's newsfeed:
@Paul Bedell: That's really strange. When you search for Neoitamus flavofemoratus, you get nothing, and when you search for Neoitamus, you get a bunch of names, but not Neoitamus flavofemoratus.
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Katja Schulz commented on "The Robber Flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of Virginia USA":
@Paul Bedell: I'm not sure if ITIS or Catalogue of Life are more up to date here. The Diptera Site, which is the source database for the Catalogue of Life, has Asilus flavipes as a Nomen Dubium, but does not seem to know about Neoitamus flavofemoratus at all. If you want to change the page name to Neoitamus flavofemoratus, you can do this yourself. Simply go to the Names tab of the Neoitamus flavofemoratus/Asilus flavipes page and select ITIS as the preferred classification. This will change the title of the page to Neoitamus flavofemoratus. Let me know if you need any additional information.
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Katja Schulz commented on an older version of Brief Summary:
@Dana Campbell: Hi Dana, the chytrid is a fungus, not a virus. Please correct your text. Thanks!
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Katja Schulz commented on "Placidae":
@Diana Lipscomb: Thanks for the info. These problems are now fixed: http://eol.org/pages/2909676/ It would be great if you could check the Placidae image collection to see if there are other misidentifications. Clicking on a thumbnail will take you to a larger version of each image. If you sign up as an EOL curator, you can fix these misidentifications yourself. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Katja Schulz commented on "kineties":
Diana Lipscomb commented on "Placidae": The family Placidae includes two genera, Spathidiopsis and Placus. The picture shown here is Spathidiopsis (not Placus). Thoracophrya is a junior synonym of Spathidiopsis. A revision of the family is at J. Eukaryot. Microbiol 59:407-422
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Katja Schulz commented on "Image of Dendrohyrax arboreus and Procavia capensis":
@david bygott: If you register as a curator, you can change these taxon associations yourself.
