[Taxacom] Fuzzy matching small win

[Boyle, Bradley L - (bboyle)]

Tony, this made my day. And...Cichlid Ornaments…geez…

Cheers,
Brad

> On Nov 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM, taxacom-request at mailman.nhm.ku.edu wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 18:55:30 +1100
> From: Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com>
> To: taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Subject: [Taxacom] Fuzzy matching small win
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> Dear Taxacomers,
> 
> Just thought I'd share a small fuzzy matching "win" I experienced today
> (and remind myself why I wrote Taxamatch software to do this) - I checked
> the name of one of the fabled and weird (and now suppressed) Lake Baikal
> amphipod genus names as reported in a couple of secondary works -
> Crassocornoechinogammarus - in my IRMNG database and it said not found, how
> about Crassicornoechinogammarus Dybowski, 1926 - and of course that was
> wwhat I wanted! Always good to know the system works when you need it...
> 
> (you can repeat the test here if interested:
> http://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxlist&searchpar=0&tComp=begins&tName=Crassocornoechinogammarus&action=search
> )
> 
> On another tack, I checked the genus name Cinclidonemertes in straight
> Google (which uses its own fuzzy match logic) and it says, "Did you mean:
> Cichlid Ornaments"? Guess not...
> 
> Regards - Tony
> 
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> https://about.me/TonyRees
>