Extra options when synonymising genera about taxonworks HOT 2 OPEN

One thought - these functions could be separated. A tool to instantiate combinations where these don't exist for all children of a genus (or for a more generic name search) would be a good cleanup tool. It could include checkboxes to deselect some names if appropriate.

from taxonworks.

A good example today. Many species in the genus Barsine have in recent decades been moved to Striatella (around 50 of them). I'd moved these to Striatella by synonymising Barsine with Striatella, using the checkboxes to select all the ones I wanted and then moving them to the new genus, after which I deleted the synonymy. So these all had Striatella as a parent but no explicit combination. Several checklists have now listed these species under Striatella.

Today, Striatella (a newly recognised homonym) was replaced by Striatochrista so I needed to change the parent for all 50 of them, but I wanted to add combinations in Striatella for each one. I had to right-click all names in the genus, click Edit, scroll down for each one, select add new combination and click Add. A tool would have saved me 20 minutes on just this one genus.

from taxonworks.