Hello, we have in our taxonomic trees a “taxon” labeled as synonym placeholder. We don’t know where it came from and it holds a lot of synonymized taxa that should be in different locations. Is there a way to either move the synonymized taxa to their proper locations or to delete them without doing …

Hi @fergashl , I removed all “Synonym Placeholder” nodes and their children from each of these discipline trees: Taxon Tree Collections Invertebrate Zoology Invertebrates Paleontology Fossil Invertebrates, Fossil Plants, Fossil Vertebrates Botany Botany Vertebrate Zoology Herpetology,…

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Grant May 5, 2025, 5:26pm 10

Hi @fergashl,

One of our support staff has added Collection Object Groups to those collections! Send us a message if you have any questions!

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