Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by this split may have been replaced with identifications of Actiniidae. This happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the output taxa. Review identifications of Urticina lofotensis 127246
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Taxonomic Split 36080 (Submetido em 09-02-2019)

This seems to be the position WoRMS is taking, synonymizing all European U. lofotensis with U. eques and assigning the new name C. albopunctata for Pacific anemones that we've been calling U. lofotensis. The underlying paper is Sanamyan & Sanamyan (2006), suggesting this is actually a pretty old change. That paper sadly does not use any genetic evidence, but WoRMS supports it. Note that while the authors do describe external morphological differences between the species, it seems to we can use geography to separate them.

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Adicionado(s) por kueda em 03 de agosto de 2018, 02:54 PM | Committed by kueda on 09 de fevereiro de 2019
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@phelsumas4life, your recent IDs prompted this change, so can you confirm that I have it right? @allisonjgong and @kestrel, you might want to take a look too as this will represent a name change for us in the Eastern Pacific, though hopefully not a very disruptive one.

Publicado por kueda mais de 5 anos antes

Yes from what I understand U. lofotensis is a defunct name that was switched to U. eques. However neither of those names are suitable for describing the Pacific species we refer to as the "white-spotted rose anemone". C. albopunctata would be the correct name for the ones observed along out coast, while U. eques would be the correct name for the Atlantic species

Publicado por phelsumas4life mais de 5 anos antes

Is this happening? I see lots of people still IDing California observations as Urticina lofotensis, while others are using C. albopunctata. Is there a way to switch all the CA observations to the new name automatically?

Publicado por tomleeturner cerca de 5 anos antes

Sorry, I have a bad habit of getting these things started and then forgetting about them. I finished off the atlases for the two output species, so please review them and let me know if there any problems. Once this split is committed, there will no longer be an active taxon named Urticina lofotensis, and all identifications of that taxon will be automatically replaced with new IDs of one of the output taxa, depending on which atlas includes the obs. @bernardpicton, maybe you could also confirm that this looks ok?

Publicado por kueda cerca de 5 anos antes

@kueda - yes, that looks good to me. I recommend committing it.

Publicado por bernardpicton cerca de 5 anos antes

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