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Jeff Holmes added text to "Brief Summary" on "Manis pentadactyla Linnaeus, 1758".
The Chinese pangolin...
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Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Yan Wong: We reharvest from Wikimedia Commons about once a week, so the change should eventually propagate to us. If it doesn't, let us know.
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Yan Wong commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Does the EoL wikipedia scraping code revise currently existing EoL content depending on changes to wikipedia? I've just found this photo: http://eol.org/data_objects/17272302 which is the result of an accidental inclusion of the wrong species into the Wikipedia image gallery for Tremarctos ornatus. I've removed it from the gallery on wikipedia, but I don't know if I need to flag it up as misidentified on EoL too, or if my changes to wikipedia will propagate down to EoL.
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Stefan Phalagorn Bergström joined the community "EOL Curators".
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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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Michael Wunderli commented on "EOL Curators":
@Katja Schulz: What i meant was that for exaple here: http://eol.org/pages/1181577/details This species for example is present but has no pictures and no detail information. That was the case with most species I found on that website. Is there something we can do about that?
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Deniz Martinez added "Pogonophryne neyelovi Shandikov & Eakin, 2013" to the collection "Species with funny English names".
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Katja Schulz added "Crassula" to the collection "Homonyms on EOL".
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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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Jennifer Hammock added an unknown item to the collection "Taxon Concept Management To Do List".
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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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Michael Wunderli commented on "EOL Curators":
Check out this website, non of the species shown there are present in the eol data. http://www.exoticfauna.com/tarantulabibliography/Haploclastus.html
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Michael Wunderli commented on "Taxon Concept Management To Do List":
@Katja Schulz: Very interesting! Thanks for explaining.
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Michael Wunderli added "Toxoplasma gondii (Nicolle & Manceaux, 1908)" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management To Do List".
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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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Michael Wunderli added an unknown item to the collection "Taxon Concept Management To Do List".
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Cyndy Parr added "Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802)" to the collection "Species with funny English names".
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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 added "Phallusia mammillata (Cuvier, 1815)" to the collection "Species with funny English names".
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Michael Wunderli added an unknown item to the collection "Taxon Concept Management To Do List".
