respeciate_organism {epidm}

Respeciated organisms

Description

Occasionally, research shows that two organisms, previously thought to be different are in fact one and the same. The reverse is also true. This is a manually updated list. If there are organisms missing, or new respeciates to be added, please raise and issue or push request on the epidm GitHub

Usage

respeciate_organism

Format

previous_organism_name

What the organism used to be known as, in the form GENUS SPECIES

organism_species_name

What the organism is known as now, in the form GENUS SPECIES

organism_genus_name

The genus of the recoded organism

genus_change

A 0/1 flag to indicate if the genus has changed

genu_all_species

A 0/1 flag to indicate if all species under that genus should change