Topic: BURrel of Eels

The bulk update request #12776 is pending approval.

create implication bobtail_eel (1) -> eel (1368)
create implication conger_eel (3) -> eel (1368)
create implication european_conger (1) -> conger_eel (3)
create implication southern_conger (1) -> conger_eel (3)
create implication cutthroat_eel (1) -> eel (1368)
create implication freshwater_eel (2) -> eel (1368)
create implication european_eel (2) -> freshwater_eel (2)
create implication japanese_eel (1) -> freshwater_eel (2)
create implication garden_eel (2) -> eel (1368)
create implication spotted_garden_eel (1) -> garden_eel (2)
create implication gulper_eel (23) -> eel (1368)
create alias pelican_eel (3) -> gulper_eel (23)
create implication giant_moray (2) -> moray_eel (246)
create implication goldentail_moray (3) -> moray_eel (246)
create implication green_moray (6) -> moray_eel (246)
create implication snipe_eel (1) -> eel (1368)

Reason: Filling out the eel tree with unimplied species and groups

_{and before anyone asks, electric eels aren't eels}

All around I am in support of this, with the only issue being that the pelican eel and the gulper eel are the same exact animal, so these two should be aliased together.

When thinking about eels in the past, I thought that perhaps the current eel tag should become something like true eel, so that swamp eels and the mistags of electric eels could be caught under the same umbrella as true eels would be, but since swamp eels have no representation so far I guess it is redundant.

bugabond said:
All around I am in support of this, with the only issue being that the pelican eel and the gulper eel are the same exact animal, so these two should be aliased together.

Not quite, there is the pelican eel/gulper eel but also a separate group of eels also called gulper eels (though when people tag 'gulper eel' here though they almost certainly mean the first one).

Maybe we have gulper eel as a polyphyletic group with pelican eel implied to it?

pleaseletmein said:
Not quite, there is the pelican eel/gulper eel but also a separate group of eels also called gulper eels (though when people tag 'gulper eel' here though they almost certainly mean the first one).

Maybe we have gulper eel as a polyphyletic group with pelican eel implied to it?

Realistically I think those two should be aliased together regardless, the terms are interchangeable. If we have any saccopharynx representation on the site, this might be a rare case of genus tags being valid for species with common names

bugabond said:
Realistically I think those two should be aliased together regardless, the terms are interchangeable. If we have any saccopharynx representation on the site, this might be a rare case of genus tags being valid for species with common names

alright, fine with me, BUR updated