Problem with the vernacular names endpoint.

[ClayAssis]

In many cases, the English name of the species is actually being returned as the Spanish name. This is the case with Dryocopus lineatus, for example..

{
  "offset": 0,
  "limit": 20,
  "endOfRecords": false,
  "results": [
    ...
    {
      "taxonKey": 5228831,
      "vernacularName": "Carpintero real",
      "language": "eng",
      "source": "ESTUDIO DE IMPACTO AMBIENTAL (EIA) DEL PARQUE SOLAR FOTOVOLTAICO GUAYEPO III 200 MW Y SU LÍNEA DE EVACUACIÓN 500 KV",
      "sourceTaxonKey": 302609269
    },
    {
      "taxonKey": 5228831,
      "vernacularName": "Carpintero real",
      "language": "eng",
      "source": "Catalogue of Life",
      "sourceTaxonKey": 299392502
    },
  ]
}

[abubelinha]

Can you provide the api request which returns this output?

Maybe it's just an error in the sources and not in the api?

[ClayAssis]

I used the documentation here with the species usageKey (5228831).

[mdoering]

Indeed the Plazi dataset marks the Spanish name as English: https://www.gbif.org/species/302609269

As we link vernacular names to the backbone dynamically, they potentially change every day and it will be hard to keep them clean. I have notified Plazi: plazi/community#477