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genus: Calephelis species: laverna #16
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edge caseA resolution edge case that has either been unaddressed or incorrectly addressed by the workflow.A resolution edge case that has either been unaddressed or incorrectly addressed by the workflow.enhancementNew feature or requestNew feature or request
An entry "Calephelis laverna" whose resolution with GNVerifier using GBIF provides sparse yet confident rank hits at just the kingdom, genus, and species levels. The final resolution is, e.g.:
This is a shortcoming of the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy.
It should be mitigated by detecting a sparse internal resolution (here, 4 missing values at internal ranks) by querying additional data providers (COL, OTOL) to either supplement or supplant this data.
For example, COL contains filled out hierarchy data:
The solution to this may also address #15.