Taxonomic Split 147464 (Committed on 2024-10-05)

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Amphiprion. This happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the output taxa. Review identifications of Amphiprion polymnus 119430

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The latest update of CoF recognizes Amphiprion annamensis , referencing Allen and Erdmann 2024.

for A. annamensis: South China Sea (from Thailand to the Philippines), North to Japan and Taiwan. Middle stripe broad and does not reach belly, no posterior stripe.
for A. polymnus: Indonesia, southern Malaysia and Philippines, south to Australia, east to Melanesia. Middle stripe reaches belly, posterior stripe present (not always in Melanesian populations).

I've checked the atlasing and it works well.

Added by donalddavesne on October 5, 2024 04:43 PM | Committed by donalddavesne on October 5, 2024

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@maractwin @joe_fish
Could you have a quick look to make sure you agree with the split as it is currently?

Posted by donalddavesne about 18 hours ago

Nice to see this change finally made. Everything north of Wallace's Line should be annamensis.

Note that specimens from the southern coast of Mindanao are polymnus... so it's not all of the Philippines.

Posted by joe_fish about 16 hours ago

@joe_fish Great, could you confirm that the current attributions are correct?

Posted by donalddavesne about 16 hours ago

these observations are all polymnus, but seems like some of these will get wrongly switched to annamensis

Posted by joe_fish about 15 hours ago

OK, I've made the changes and committed.
Some observations are outside of atlases and will have to be ID'd manually.

Many thanks, @joe_fish!

Posted by donalddavesne about 14 hours ago