[HELICONIUS] Polytomy in the Heliconiini in opentreeoflife.org

[James Mallet]

A LOT of corrections need doing.

But yes, there are such databases of heliconiine, neotropical 
(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_17ii06.xls), and many other 
butterfly name synonyms across the world: 
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/ (mainly by Gerardo Lamas).

Jim

On 18/09/2015 22:21, Alexie Papanicolaou wrote:
>
> Yes, thanks to it being exposed in an easy to use format, one can now 
> curate the literature more effectively. I guess you got your work cut 
> out for next week ;-)
>
> If you have any databases of synonyms etc, I assume they'd love to 
> hear so they could be integrated
>
> Best
> A
>
> On 19/09/2015 12:15 pm, "James Mallet" <jmallet at oeb.harvard.edu 
> <mailto:jmallet at oeb.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Interesting! -- opentreeoflife.org
>     <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__opentreeoflife.org&d=BQMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=3uOEnwhjH4qUqTLCy4GIX0xRsO-0ln3kGqNCAL1DzmY&m=ePxZ13JQXkY_jBe32JdQoSv3ZYIgMEnDmkZQ55qvFA0&s=CBeeZU8jntOK6MJKcRFSe_u6IZaV1Azyq6Bm4fzFFP4&e=>
>     have Heliconius timareta thelxinoe, but they do not have the name
>     florencia in the Heliconius names. Maybe it depends on in which
>     journal you publish?
>
>     J
>
>     On 18/09/2015 21:38, James Mallet wrote:
>>     Interesting project idea, a Wikipedia for phylogeny, and perhaps
>>     I shouldn't knock it.
>>
>>     But does anyone feel like correcting this polytomy in
>>     opentreeoflife.org
>>     <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__opentreeoflife.org&d=BQMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=3uOEnwhjH4qUqTLCy4GIX0xRsO-0ln3kGqNCAL1DzmY&m=ePxZ13JQXkY_jBe32JdQoSv3ZYIgMEnDmkZQ55qvFA0&s=CBeeZU8jntOK6MJKcRFSe_u6IZaV1Azyq6Bm4fzFFP4&e=>?
>>
>>     *https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/opentree3.0@1766047/Heliconiini
>>     <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tree.opentreeoflife.org_opentree_opentree3.0-401766047_Heliconiini&d=BQMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=3uOEnwhjH4qUqTLCy4GIX0xRsO-0ln3kGqNCAL1DzmY&m=ePxZ13JQXkY_jBe32JdQoSv3ZYIgMEnDmkZQ55qvFA0&s=noMh3NiDC9uzl0kuuT0Dg-Xo_SDolmMYac8yZ-iPwGg&e=>*
>>
>>     I counted 815 "species" in the genus /Heliconius /on this site,
>>     including /Heliconius wucherpfennigi/ which is a named aberration
>>     of a form of a subspecies of "/Heliconius clytia/" which is
>>     thought today to be a synonym of /Heliconius wallacei/!
>>
>>     No wonder they claim to have 2.3 million species! I wonder how
>>     many other groups have spurious species like this!
>>
>>     Best wishes, Jim
>>     -- 
>>     James Mallet
>>     Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
>>     Harvard University
>>     16 Divinity Avenue - BioLabs
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>>     USA tel:+(1)617-496-5350 <tel:%2B%281%29617-496-5350>
>>     www.oeb.harvard.edu/mallet/ <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/mallet/>
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>>     Harvard University
>>     16 Divinity Avenue - BioLabs
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