1 Topic by Gordon Barker

  • Gordon Barker
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Topic: clams

Hi Chris

I have had an issue with some records that were entered via iRecord as 'clam' which matched in UKSI to Mercenaria mercenaria, which resulted in incorrect new records for NI for this American species sneaking through into NBN Atlas via NT's R6 database. Would it make sense for this generic name to be taken off that species and instead put at a higher level?

Gordon Barker
Biological Survey Data Manager
National Trust

2 Reply by ChrisR

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Re: clams

Yes, totally agree - I have moved it to Bivalvia :)

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/)