Arctic Tracker / What changed / Finding
Finding: seizure records attributed to the wrong species
Status: corrected in the rebuild. Retained rows show the taxon name the source reported, so attribution can be checked rather than trusted.
Precedent
Reviewer 1 found that reference lists were identical across species pages. That class of defect, content bound to the wrong species identifier, was then hunted in the seizure table, where the same pattern was present and had never been reported.
What was wrong
Seizure rows were filed under a species based on a genus-level or otherwise loose match. The reported taxon name on the row often named a different species from the one the row was attributed to.
Arithmetic (three different numbers)
| Rows in the source CSV | 919 |
| Kept: reported taxon matches the attributed species | 225 |
| Rejected: reported taxon is a different species | 694 |
225 + 694 = 919.
The previous live table showed 742 rows. That figure was built by a different path (a 2025-10 hotfix corrected polar bear contamination only). The drop from that earlier live count to the retained set of 225 is 517. That delta answers a pipeline question. It is not the same quantity as the source rows rejected for naming a different taxon (see the 694 in the table above). Those two figures must not be narrated as one arithmetic.
What the rebuild does
Only rows whose reported taxon matches the attributed binomial, a subspecies of it, or a frozen alias are retained. Each retained record displays reported_taxon_name. Quantities in the source are unitless, so no seizure total is offered: a count of records is the only honest aggregate.
Related
- Application:
/changes#illegal-trade - Deposit:
tables/illegal_trade_seizures.csv(225 rows) - Loader evidence:
illegal_trade_decontamination.jsonin the API repository
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