The joys of mapping names in TreeBASE

Abstract

Here's a fun example of how databases get out of sync, making them harder to link up. TreeBASE taxon T4628 is labelled <i> Bolitoglossa sombra </i> , which doesn't exist in NCBI's taxonomy database, which is odd as the study by Mueller <i> et al. </i> (S1139) is a molecular phylogeny (doi:10.1073/pnas.0405785101), and the taxon concerned has had its whole mitochondrial genome sequenced. In the paper this taxon is listed as " <i> Bolitoglossa </i> sp.