Hello Fiona

I can't find either of these lichen taxa in the species dictionary and there are no records for them on the NBN Gateway. New taxonversionkeys will need to be added to the species dictionary to include records for these 2 taxa on the NBN Gateway, so that they will appear in the NBN interactive map.

Best wishes

Graham
NBN Technical Liaison Officer

Many thanks Janet, that helps enormously. I finally caught up with our resident lichenologist who told me Verrucaria viridula had not been split so we have updated our records to Verrucaria viridula.

For Verrucaria cernaensis, I will wait for the BLS update and then we should be able to connect to the correct species on the IMT.

We hope to have our dataset uploaded to the Gateway in September so we should be displaying our records using the IMT shortly after that.

At the moment we will be displaying Northern Ireland records only through the Habitas website but I plan to put links through the NBN Gateway for people to view all records on the map.

Thanks again,
Fiona

The update to the lichen species dictionary was submitted last year, after a huge amount of work to put it together, and we understood that Charles was working on it before he retired, so we are very concerned to hear that it has dropped off the schedule again. We have other projects, including the NBN Record Cleaner rules, that are waiting on this so can you give us any idea of when it might get done?

I do realise that it is a big job and there are many other demands on your time!!

Janet