This is not the first suspect agave entry I have encountered in the database. For what it's worth, they also list these two agaves as synonyms
Agave ferdinandi-regis = Agave victoriae-reginae ssp. victoriae-reginae
when they should be listing them this way
Agave ferdinandi-regis = Agave nickelsiae
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