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Topic: some moss variations!

According the the Recorder preferred list "Wavy Beard-moss" is given as "Didymodon sinuosus", but records entered as D.sinuosus are displayed and the 'Recommended Taxon Name' for reports is given as Oxystegus sinuosus.

The same is the case for:
Narrow-fruited Crisp-moss : preferred list Trichostomum tenuirostre; reports display Oxystegus tenuirostris

This causing me problems in an external routine which relies on the preferred TVK

Craig

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2 Reply by ChrisR

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Re: some moss variations!

Hi Craig

The moss checklist does need updating and I'm working with Oli Pescott but it is slow progress (on my part). Am I right in saying that the checklist is just an older taxonomy to the master taxonomy? I have Oxystegus as the correct genus for both taxa - is this wrong?

Thanks
Chris R.

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)