[Taxacom] Algorithms for misspelled taxon names (was: the hurdle for all biodiv informatics initiatives)

[Tony.Rees at csiro.au]

Dear all,

Further to my last post, the following list of genus level misspellings for fossil bivalves in the online version of J.J. Sepkoski's compendium of fossil marine genera is given by the authors of a paper by Krug et al., 2007, and is available online at http://geosci.uchicago.edu/pdfs/jablonski/ContrarianData_BivalveGenera.xls (I have extracted the relevant misspellings for your interest, so you can see the types of errors in an example real world list, for Bivalvia alone):

<quote>
?Brachylyrodesma ... misspelled Brahcylyrodesma
Adelodonax ... misspelled Adelodonex by JJS
Afghanodesma ... misspelled Afganodesma by JJS and others
Aloloconcha ... misspelled Aloconcha
Amusium ... misspelled Amussium by JJS
Antonella ... misspelled Antoneila by JJS
Antutrigonia ... misspelled Antutitrigonia by JJS
Austrocucullaea ... misspelled Austracuculiaea by JJS
Borehamia ... misspelled Barehamia by JJS
Califadesma ... misspelled Califodesma by JJS
Clinopistha ... misspelled Clinopista byt JJS
Cryptocardia ... misspelled Cryptocarida by JJS
Cyclosunetta ... misspelled Cyclosunneta by JJS
Denticelox ... misspelled Denticelex by JJS
Dysodonta ... misspelled Dysondonta by JJS
Ekaterodonta ... misspelled Ekaterdonta by JJS
Ekstadia ... misspelled Paleostraba by JJS
Erodona ... misspelled Erdona by JJS
Ferganea ... misspelled Fergania by JJS
Fungiacava ... misspelled Fungiacara by JJS
Glossomyophorus ... misspelled Gloassamyophorous by JJS
Gujocardita ... misspelled Gujocardia by JJS and in Hayami & Kase 1977
Heminajas ... misspelled Procostaria by JJS
Intomodesma ... misspelled Intodesma by JJS
Kazachia ... misspelled Kasachia by JJS
Lapteviella ... misspelled Lepteviella by JJS
Lasaeokellya ... misspelled Lasaeakellya by JJS
Leporimetis ... misspelled Leporimetus by JJS
Litorhadia ... misspelled Lithorhadia by JJS
Lovetchenia ... misspelled Lovetcheniia
Lywea ... misspelled Lywcea by JJS
Mactromyella ... misspelled Mactomyella by JJS
Malagasitrigonia ... misspelled Malagastrigonia by JJS
Mysidioptera ... misspelled Mysidoptera by JJS
Naritra ... misspelled Neritra in Treatise and by JJS
Neaeroporomya ... misspelled Nearoporomya by JJS
Neuquenitrigonia ... misspelled Neuquenenitrigonia
Nitidotellina ... misspelled Nitidittellina by JJS
Opimarcia ... misspelled Opimaria by JJS
Pamiropecten ... misspelled Pomiropecten by JJS
Phestioidea ... misspelled Phestioides by JJS
Pichleria ... misspelled Pitchleria by JJS
Praespondylopecten ... misspelled Praesondylopecten by JJS
Protostrea ... misspelled Proostrea by JJS
Pseudarcopagia ... misspelled Pseudoarcopagia by JJS
Scythentolium ... misspelled Scythemtolium by JJS
Sornayceramus ... misspelled Sorngyaceramus by JJS
Tentidonax ... misspelled Tentidonox by JJS
Titonpecten ... misspelled Titaonpecten by JJS
Tivelina ... misspelled Tivellina by JJS
Trichiplicatula ... misspelled Trichiplatula by JJS
Tulongocardium ... misspelled Tulongcardium by JJS
Xiaoshuiculana ... misspelled Xiaoshuisulcna by JJS
Zeehania ... misspelled Zechania by JJS
</quote>

Perhaps it is interesting to see how many of these (which I have not previously examined) fall into my categories of phonetic vs. non-phonetic errors (of course there are no gender errors at this level).

Regards - Tony