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Re: Perizoma didymata (Twin-spot Carpet) - TVK heirarchy query

Hi Charles,

Is there any reason that TVK NHMSYS0000551128 is deemed a badly formed name?

See URL http://data.nbn.org.uk/speciesInfo/taxonomy.jsp?searchTerm=twin-spot%20carpet&spKey=NBNSYS0000005891

It looks fine to me.

Is it possible to make TVK NHMSYS0000551128 a correctly formed name or is this also fixed and irreversable?

If not, is it possible to make TVK NBNSYS00001711464 which is flagged as correctly formed the synonym of NBNSYS0000005891? I have a feeling this is where TVK NBNSYS00001711464 should be in the hierarchy? - I could be wrong though!

I raise this as via Web Services it shows up as a problem on our web site. See URL http://www.mothscount.org/maps/94/moth_distribution_maps.html?filter=P - if this was correctly formed it would be prefixed with "Twin-spot Carpet" and be found under the filter "T" alongside its subspecies.

I hope this makes sense.

Best wishes,
Les.

Les Evans-Hill
Senior Data Officer
Butterfly Conservation, Butterflies for the New Millennium and National Moth Recording Scheme

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2 Reply by CharlesHussey

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Re: Perizoma didymata (Twin-spot Carpet) - TVK heirarchy query

Les,

Once again, well spotted. NHMSYS0000551128 should be marked as Well-formed. The reason why 'Twin-spot carpet has 2 TVKS is that we (perversely perhaps) assign ranks to vernacular names so NHMSYS0000551128 is for the species and NBNSYS0000171464 is for the subspecies.

Thank you for getting in touch.

Charles Hussey

NBN Species Dictionary Project Manager (Retired!) smile