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Topic: Hydracarina - stuck in an in-between world on the atlas

The following record appears to be for a taxon which behaves rather oddly on the Atlas.

https://records.nbnatlas.org/occurrence … 20a44ea5fb

A search for the taxa it refers to (Hydracarina) produces no results, but there is a link under 'related searches' which produces  2,830 records. These have a 'scientific name' filter comes up as 'unknown'. So the above record has 2,829 cousins that exist in the a strange in-between world on the NBN atlas, not knowing whether they are or are not a real taxa!

A download of the record produces no TVK in the download file. The taxa is on the Environment Agency Check List dictionary in R6.

There may be other taxa that behave in a similar way. Obviously something dictionary related...

Mark Pollitt
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2 Reply by charliebarnes

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Re: Hydracarina - stuck in an in-between world on the atlas

No doubt this is related to the "Name not recognised" error the record produces!

If I'm right there are 324,637 records that haven't been matched. Less than there was a few months back: https://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php … 653#p26653

Charlie Barnes
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Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

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3 Reply by sratcliffe

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Re: Hydracarina - stuck in an in-between world on the atlas

Hi Mark,
Yes, Hydracarina was missing from the species dictionary. I realised as well after a recent data upload. It is in the latest version, which I hope that we can upload very soon.

Unfortunately a recent data upload added to the 'name not recognised' count, as a few of the TVKs were for common names, which we don't match. I have asked our developer whether it is possible to change the routine to attempt a common name TVK match if the supplied TVK is not recognised. I think that this must have been possible in the Gateway. I haven't heard back about it yet.

Thanks, Sophie