Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by this split may have been replaced with identifications of Mustela. This happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the output taxa. Review identifications of Mustela nivalis 41815

Taxonomic Split 26133 (Committed on 2017-11-02)

Two asian populations in parts of China and Vietnam have been split off from Least Weasel (sensu lato) as distinct species

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ... (Citation)
Added by loarie on October 31, 2017 11:47 PM | Committed by loarie on November 2, 2017
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@loarie : the taxon split has left two sub-species dangling below an now inactive species https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/41815-Mustela-nivalis. Did we really need a new "Mustela nivalis" taxon entity after the split?

Posted by tony_wills almost 6 years ago

@loarie couldn't we essentially just reverse this taxon change for Mustela nivalis?

Posted by bobby23 over 5 years ago

well we don't want to 'revert' since thats an imperfect tool that leaves alot of loose ends (more so the more time that passes). But we can lump these now and ressurect the original range
Sorry about the dangling ssp tony - validations have since been added that prevent this

Posted by loarie over 5 years ago

I apologize for my poor choice of words: I did not literally mean "revert" as if it were a tool, I meant figuratively. This way no one has to make any new atlases or ranges since they already exist for the currently inactive Mustela nivalis (lato).

Posted by bobby23 over 5 years ago

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