ITIS lost classificationPaths, classificationRanks and classificationIdsfor keys some entries

[BenMerSci]

ITIS lost some of the keys returned (classificationPath, classificationRanks and classificationIds) for what seems to be for taxons queried at the kingdom level for example:

Animalia (https://verifier.globalnames.org/api/v1/verifications/Animalia?capitalize=true&all_matches=true&data_sources=3)

Archaea (https://verifier.globalnames.org/api/v1/verifications/Archaea?capitalize=true&all_matches=true&data_sources=3)

Fungi (https://verifier.globalnames.org/api/v1/verifications/Fungi?capitalize=true&all_matches=true&data_sources=3)

When those keys were previously returned (they are still returned for example when querying Catalogue Of Life)

[dimus]

Thanks for reporting it @BenMerSci. Somehow I missed this! Ill add a test and fix it.

[dimus]

Looks like ITIS does not have parent ID for kingdoms. I got their SQLite dump and this is what it shows for

select tsn, complete_name, parent_tsn
  from taxonomic_units
  where complete_name = 'Fungi' 
    or complete_name = 'Archaea' 
    or complete_name = 'Animalia' 
    or complete_name = 'Pardosa moesta'

tsn	complete_name	parent_tsn
202423	Animalia	0
555705	Fungi	0
864483	Pardosa moesta	849078
935939	Archaea	0

No parents for kingdoms, but a parent exists for a species. So for the particular queries you provided ITIS does not give hierarchy data.

I think I need to figure out the difference between CoL and Itis to fix it.

[BenMerSci]

Maybe ITIS changed something on their side, because those values used to be provided for the example I provided.