The Sankey reads as untranslated Latin above the familiar ranks: Eumetazoa and Porifera say nothing to most readers. Each group now carries a short English name under its scientific name, and the hover state no longer draws a pale slab across the ribbons or stacks two tooltips on top of each other.
## English names
`data/common_names.json`, built by the new `refresh_common_names.py`, merges two sources:
* **NCBI Taxonomy** `genbank common name` and `common name` entries, about 9,200 taxa. This covers species, genera and familiar classes well (Porifera gets "sponges" straight from NCBI) but only 35 of the 200 largest groups in the atlas.
* **A curated table of ~190 short glosses** for the large unranked clades NCBI leaves unnamed, which are exactly the ones the atlas shows first: Opisthokonta "animals and fungi", Eumetazoa "animals with true tissues", Ecdysozoa "moulting animals", Endopterygota "insects with metamorphosis". Glosses are plain-language summaries of the living members o…
