Taxonomic Swap 10618
(Committed on 2015-03-04)
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FYI to all, I re-activated the taxon. Taxa with a bunch of observations like this should never simply be marked inactive, a taxon swap needs to be done so that the observations can get reassigned to the appropriate name.
This is a somewhat difficult case where the regional authorities that iNaturalist defers to do agree on species status, but other sources call it a subspecies.
Following the current iNat Curator Guidelines, this should probably stay at species.
The classification as a species in SEINET is based on the work of Marc A. Baker for the Intermountain Flora (https://www.amazon.com/Intermountain-Flora-U-S-Subclasses-Magnoliidae-Caryophyllidae/dp/0893275204).
He cites the tuberculate spines of mojavensis as a significant trait (species justification).
E. triglochidiatus does not think so.
By a lot of SEM shots we could prove the opposite.
I'm a little confused by why Echinocerus mojavensis is inactive right now. This is the only taxon change associated with it.
Taxon is listed as last edited by @ug56bdi on January 8th, 2017.
Taxon appears to be accepted by regional authorities Calflora and SEINet (but not The Plant List).
https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/210795
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes?taxon_id=68188
species:
http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Echinocereus+mojavensis
http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=10099
subspecies:
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242415252
http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2782694
http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:87942-2