Vázquez-García, J.A., C.S. Rosales-Martínez, J. Padilla-Lepe, G. Hernandez-Vera, y L.J. García-Morales. 2024. New genera and new combinations in Agavaceae (Asparagales). Phytoneuron 2024-02: 1–14. Published 15 January 2024. ISSN 2153 733X
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I have to confess surprise at seeing this, and several other associated, taxon swaps. The paper describing the new genera and combinations was only published this month and few people will have had time to find it, read it carefully and assess its content. None of the three new genera proposed are listed by either IPNI or POWO. Normal practice on iNaturalist would be to flag the existing taxa involved and initiate a discussion amongst interested participants prior to making a decision on whether to accept or reject the new taxonomy. This is especially important given the large number of observations affected by these changes.
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.
I have to confess surprise at seeing this, and several other associated, taxon swaps. The paper describing the new genera and combinations was only published this month and few people will have had time to find it, read it carefully and assess its content. None of the three new genera proposed are listed by either IPNI or POWO. Normal practice on iNaturalist would be to flag the existing taxa involved and initiate a discussion amongst interested participants prior to making a decision on whether to accept or reject the new taxonomy. This is especially important given the large number of observations affected by these changes.